Glaring error in new NCTQ report
This is relatively unimportant in terms of the broader argument of the new National Council on Teacher Quality report, Invisible Ink in Collective Bargaining, but my jaw dropped when I read the map on p. 10 that claimed Florida was one of the states with no class size policy. The class-size policy of Florida is […]
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education jumps the shark
Twice this month I’ve agreed with National Association of Scholars head Peter Wood, but when NAS organizes what looks like a Horowitzian ideological witchhunt, they’ve lost my sympathy. I’m also at a loss to understand why the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s blog applauded NAS. There’s a pretty large gulf between FIRE’s support of […]
Strata game development: it’s my family’s fault
For the record, all I did was create a game to engage students in talking about education policy. But my daughter suggested we play it, even in draft form. Here’s what I learned from that first round of playtesting: The basic game is playable. Everyone started inventing stories for their families, and my son (who […]
Apologies to Liam Julian
Mea culpa. Yesterday, I linked to a Flypaper blog entry (see Google cache of the page, since the original entry is gone) that had pointed to a Wall Street Journal editorial with an ad hominem (and silly argument) asserting that Barack Obama was a hypocrite for opposing vouchers while using his own money to send […]
Ocala rethinks high grade-retention rates
In the late 1990s, Florida instituted a requirement that third-graders reach a certain test threshold in reading or be held back in third grade. Now Marion County schools (which includes Ocala) is rethinking grade retention where it can (hat tip), once they realized they had several hundred middle-school students who could legally drive. The research […]