Listen to chatting on the Gadfly podcast, but skip the singing
With a batch of driving stints this week to Florida Education Association meetings 30 minutes from home, I’ve caught up on the Education Gadfly podcast (feed). They have a new opening song (a rap), which I can definitely confirm was not performed by Mike Petrilli or Rick Hess, after hearing both of them attempt to croon on […]
National Standards as Policy Machismo
Alexander Russo and I agree on National (Yawn) Standards (Again) (his title), regarding last week’s CEP report on state proficiency percentage trends and the NCES comparison of state proficiency cut-scores and NAEP cut-scores and also the double-report week’s politics. In a different way, I also agree with U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings in her […]