Drug education is NOT working… at least not at ED in ’08
Strong American Schools’ ED in ’08 campaign became one of the most successful independent advocacy initiatives of the 2008 election season and has helped turn the need for education reform from a low-priority campaign issue into one of the Obama Administration’s top policy priorities.–“Final Report from Strong American Schools” e-mail from Roy Romer and Marc […]
“Manufactured Controversy” the paper
Last week, Free Exchange on Campus published the latest thing other than student work to go on my to-read list: Manufactured Controversy, on the lessons to be learned from the attempt to politicize universities by David Horowitz and his allies. No, I haven’t read it yet. But that’s good news: this is a chance for […]
No one ever accused Arne Duncan of impersonating an education researcher
Hopefully some day we can track kids from pre-school to high-school and from high school to college and college to career. Hopefully we can track good kids to good teachers and good teachers to good colleges of education. This was an excerpt from a speech Duncan gave today to IES staff about the need to […]
Sifting priorities, micro and macro
I had such good intentions this morning. After dropping off my daughter at the High School o’ SATs, I figured I’d sit in the local Starbucks and read student work while she was wearing down No. 2 pencils. So there I was at about 7:45 in the morning, listening to slightly-too-loud Sinatra and reading drafts […]
My brother, the health-care policy wonk
Time to kvell: my brother Stan Dorn is currently a staff member at the Urban Institute, the latest step in a long career in health policy. Yesterday, he went toe-to-toe with Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former Congressional Budget Office director, and Dennis Kneale, apparently one of the designated Yelling Heads at CNBC who asserted that 20,000 dead […]