Put those whetstones away
Annie Lowrey’s New York Times piece on the December 2011 NBER paper by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff is going to be the talk of the weekend when the education blogule isn’t talking about NCLB’s 10th anniversary or the update of the Gates MET research. But unless someone talks about specific findings that […]
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the NCLB that resists
Lots of stuff at the start of the weekend marking the 10th anniversary of NCLB’s signing by President George W. Bush, from Dana Goldstein (the best short summary I have read recently) to Andrew Rotherham (the best short defense) to the public release of a draft, GOP-only bill in the House scrapping much of NCLB’s machinery, and […]