Center-right education fellowships
Two items of note regarding center-right education folks: The Fordham Fellows blog has just started up. I expect it to have lots of interesting discussions. The Education Entrepreneur Fellowship at Indianapolis’s The Mind Trust. It’s a two-year stint with office space, travel support, and networking opportunities for a few people with provocative ideas they want […]
Call for papers: Politics, Activism, and the History of America’s Public Schools
Forwarded from an e-mail, an opportunity for graduate students and new scholars in the history of education. “Politics, Activism, and the History of America’s Public Schools”A Conference Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of The Irony of Early School Reform, April 12, 2008 University of Pennsylvania Upon its publication, Professor Michael B. Katz’s The Irony of Early […]
Jack Jennings is right (part 1)
I didn’t have my computer for part of the evening, but I did have a way to record my thoughts on Jack Jennings’s testimony yesterday at the NCLB reauthorization hearing.
NCLB hearing testimony
I’m trying to find all of the written statements for yesterday’s NCLB hearing. Thus far, I have the following: Jack Jennings Kevin Carey Bob Wise Dianne Piche Nelson Smith Reg Weaver Kati Haycock Mike Petrilli Joan Wodiska Paul Houston Michael Resnick Correction: All of the testimony is listed on the committee’s hearing page, which also […]
Stalemate talk or spin?
Another bit from Alexander Russo today, stemming from an NPR story: [This is the] first word I’ve heard of that Spellings is saying she’d rather have the current NCLB than the Miller draft. Saber-rattling? Maybe. But for those who are most worried about multiple measures and all the rest, it’s going to be a serious […]