Life The tenure process can work out
She may have been doubting it at various points, but many of who have read her blog over the past few years never did: Profgrrrrl got tenure.
"Differentiated accountability"
Alexander Russo links to news coverage of the Margaret Spellings announcement yesterday that maybe not all AYP failures are the same. Here’s some blog coverage: Ed Week reporter David Hoff notes the irony that Spellings made the announcement in a state that was ineligible for the pilot. St Pete Times reporter Ron Matus anticipates that […]
Florida ed policy and politics
The legislative session is in full swing (or a more colorful noun), and a bunch of things are in the air either in Tallahassee or elsewhere: 1. Both houses of the state legislature are considering bills to change the role of state testing (FCAT), either by adding other information to the labeling of high schools […]
When you make speeches the issue…
I don't generally talk about electoral politics in this blog, but yesterday's speech by Barack Obama strikes me as historic, whether or not Obama wins the Democratic party's nomination or the general election. Historians are often wrong in their predictions (we earn a rear-view mirror with that degree, not a crystal ball), but this is […]