Education funding politics in Florida
Later this morning, a few thousand teachers and their friends will be gathering in Orlando to rally on behalf of public education in Florida. The Make Our Schools a Priority campaign has been making waves, most recently with a Brevard County 10,000-person “town hall” meeting with the county’s legislative delegation. If I weren’t still coughing […]
Just call it like it is, after you’ve paid your dues
It looks like a bunch of interested parties are starting to judge the Obama administration based on its appointments and early policy direction. And that’s just fine. But when there’s Fordham’s Reform-a-meter, and Diane Ravitch proclaims Duncan’s USDOE to be Bush’s third term, I’ll chime in with Fred Klonsky: judge people for what they do, […]
Real news on education
For some reason, U.S. News and the Christian Science Monitor decided to take my comments on the president’s speech Tuesday out of context and spin one clause as an “I’m not impressed with the president” remark. Sheesh. I’m generally happy with his actions thus far as president, but I can also recognize that there was […]
On exaggerations in the service of bitterness
Today, Charles Barone indulged in some recriminations about the use of test data to evaluate teachers: “In fact, in many states there is tremendous pressure to pass legislation which assures a firewall-like separation between teachers and student performance. Such laws have already passed in California, New York, and Wisconsin; …” But let’s examine that claim […]
One-Blog Schoolhouse: contents and index
Want to know precisely what is in the new One-Blog Schoolhouse? You can now look at the prefatory and index pages as well as the references (with one spelling error fixed, thanks to A.G. Rud). One-Blog Schoolhouse prefatory and index pages Publish at Scribd or explore others: blogging books Okay, now you’ve seen the contents; […]