Will Charlie Crist threaten a budget veto if the legislature won’t go along with using ARRA funds?
Mark Sanford’s political ambitions might cost 7,500 South Carolina teachers their jobs because he doesn’t want his state to accept federal ARRA funds. Charlie Crist’s political ambitions might save thousands of Florida teachers their jobs because he does want Florida to accept federal ARRA funds. There are some legislators in Florida who agree with Mark […]
Joel Klein as DM
John Thompson’s blog entry today, God Does Not Play Dice, is in response to Charles Barone’s Ed Sector report on value-added or growth models used for high-stakes accountability. (It’s on my to-read list along with the IES/Mathematica study on teacher ed programs and various other things.) Thompson describes a number of caveats and then says, […]
Inconsistency illustrated
From an Andy Smarick blog entry yesterday afternoon: I can’t imagine how sad and frightened thousands of DC kids and parents are today…. The scuttling of this program will have a swift and severe influence on about 1,700 low-income boys and girls. From Smarick’s blog entry about 10 hours earlier: The schools chief in Baltimore […]
Get Accountability Frankenstein for $10!!
Information Age Publishing is having a ten-year anniversary sale where you can get 10 or more books from their catalog for $10 each. Their authors, editors, and series editors include Gene Glass, Ernie House, Erwin Johanningmeier, Terry Richarson, Tom Popkewitz, Kathy Borman, Kenneth Wong, Jaekyung Lee, Maurice Berube, V.P. Franklin, Carol Camp Yeakey, and many […]
“Five pillars” and paranoia
I’m waiting–just waiting–for some yahoo to point to the “five pillars” language in the president’s education speech this morning and say, “Hey, there are five pillars of Islam, too. This means…!” Then again, such a statement would require that the said nutcase would have to know something about Islam. And while we’re speaking of conspiracies, […]