Would a parent trigger violate Florida state constitution?
The Fort Myers News-Press is reporting that Governor Rick Scott is including in his legislative agenda a parent trigger proposal. St. Pete Times reporter Jeff Solochek is a bit skeptical of the effectiveness of parent-triggered charters, but there’s another issue: The [local] school board shall operate, control and supervise all free public schools within the school […]
Accountability Frankenstein 50% off trade paperback this week
Shamless plug alert: All Information Age Publishing titles are half-price this week for trade paperback editions when you order directly from the publisher, which means you can pick up Accountability Frankenstein for $23 plus shipping. You can also pick up Gene Glass’s Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnet Strips, Johanningmeier and Richardson’s Educational Research, the National Agenda, and […]
Old-fashioned alt-academic careers: Diane Ravitch
Take an alternative route from academic training, acquire elder-statecraft status, say what you want, get written up. That’s pretty much what happened to Diane Ravitch, as told either by Dana Goldstein or Kevin Carey this year. ((See the responses to Carey’s recent piece by Goldstein and Mike Petrilli. I don’t know the extent to which […]
Distance Education Short Selling Investment Club
In response to Lee Fang’s feature in The Nation, How Online Learning Companies Bought America’s Schools, several DC wonks have criticized Fang’s article, from Bill Tucker’s note that the Florida Virtual School is public (something Fang never mentions) to Tyson Eberhardt’s argument that “private vendors” in virtual schooling will bring competition (presumably improving it). Since […]
Sorry, those of you told you were talented: Effort still matters much more
By Sherman Dorn on November 20, 2011
David Hambrick and Elizabeth J. Meinz, arguing that Talent Matters in today’s New York Times Sunday review section: But working memory capacity made a statistically significant contribution as well about 7 percent, a medium-size effect This was in comparison to total practice time, which contributed “nearly half of the performance differences.” This is from a Meinz and Hambrick […]
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