Bad signs in Kenya
According to the Chronicle of Higher Ed, Kenyan Universities Remain Closed as Fighting Worsens. Universities had already delayed the opening of the current term, and when schools are closed in civil conflict, lots of other things are inevitably shut down as well. Coverage by PRI’s The World provides more information about the conflict in Kenya […]
Alfie Kohn and Diane Ravitch agree!
This week, the zeitgeist in education news is paying students for test scores, as in the Baltimore Sun article yesterday or the USA Today story, but so-called incentive programs have been in the news before and criticized before: See criticisms of Pizza Hut’s “Book It” program or Barry Schwartz’s column last July, which scored New […]