Mis-Remembering Title IX
The debate over the 2005 reinterpretation of college athletic applications of Title IX tends to avoid acknowledging the truth: the higher-ed athletic application of Title IX is only one part of what Title IX’s prohibition on gender discrimination touched, and it’s probably the least important large chunk of Title IX’s effects. In the decade before Title […]
Dorn silent on EPE grad rate database
No, I’m not, really, or it’s just a long caesura that I’m taking before looking closely at EPE’s Swanson-rate database, though the Washington Post has clearly gone ahead without me (which they’d do anyway, deadline-obeying group of journalists that they are).Yes, I’ll look at their figures on Detroit, to see if EPE has corrected last year’s obvious […]
Locke and Loaded
The latest episode in the complex relationships among local school districts, charter-school organizers, and teachers unions is the petition of teachers and parents at Los Angeles’s Locke High School to have the school converted to charter status under Green Dot. Eduwonk Andy Rotherham picks the United Teachers of Los Angeles quote from down in the […]
Who steals the joy from reading?
My favorite lines from Timothy Burke’s latest blog are at the end: You can’t get back to loving reading by cheerless attacks on whatever academic fashion annoys you. Love and pleasure require generosity. No miser will ever know them as they can be known. On the other hand, while I suspect that’s a sidelong swipe […]
The (Vain) Education Reformer’s Commandments
The first version… I am the LORD Publicity, who brought thee out of the land of Peoria, out of the house where you are not a household name and are never quoted by Education Week. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.