Cutting reading coaches
Yesterday morning’s Lakeland Ledger story on the cutting of reading coaches has a good (if brief) discussion of the issues. While the current economic catastrophe is much worse than any other recession since WW2, this dynamic is a result of the way that schools respond to reform pressures by adding pieces to the school: you […]
Everyone’s job prospects are sinking
In discussing new employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics when disaggregated by educational attainment, Andy Rotherham argues that “problems are hardly equally distributed and again the returns to education are apparent.” Looking at the table (and at the seasonally-adjusted figures), it’s clear that there are differences in January’s unemployment rates (12.0% for high […]
Easy prediction, the bad kind
When a university lays off a large proportion of its faculty (including those with tenure) when (a) the university has not declared financial exigency, (b) faculty representatives gave the administration options to address the financial problems without laying anyone off, and (c) faculty were not involved in deciding who would be laid off, it doesn’t […]