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 […]
Not hypocrisy
Liam Julian is chiming in with the Wall Street Journal today in implying that Senator Obama is hypocritical for sending his children to private schools while voting against voucher programs. I suppose you could claim that Obama would be hypocritical if he had used a voucher program and then voted against them, but he and […]
Strata, the game
Today, I’m in limbo: I finished my summer class with an all-day session yesterday, but the papers aren’t due until tomorrow at noon, so I have a day to recuperate from being on my feet for 8 hours. (I also picked up my daughter from the airport, and we waited around for a while because […]
Review of “Accountability Frankenstein”
As far as I’m aware, Teachers College Record recently published the first review of Accountability Frankenstein. From the comments by Dick Schutz, “If you are in any way concerned with the status and future of US el-hi education, you owe it to yourself to read this book.” You can read the review to see where […]