Monthly Archives: May 2012
As promised, I’m posting Carolyn Sharette’s response to a reader’s concern that regular public schools don’t have the option of adopting a “no excuses” policy for students who refuse to do their work, or even to show up to pretend … Continue reading
Sometimes the comments on my blog are so much better than my original post that I hate to see them buried down in the comments section. My postings about the Romney education plan and long waiting lists for New York … Continue reading
If you’re interested in learning more about Governor Romney’s education proposals, take a look at this thoughtful analysis by Michael Petrilli, the director of the Fordham Institute. Here are the opening paragraphs: Governor Mitt Romney’s long-awaited education address happened on … Continue reading
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave his first major address on education yesterday. Blasting President Obama’s and Senate Democrats’ repeated efforts to shut down the District of Columbia’s enormously popular (at least with parents) voucher program, he called for expanding school … Continue reading
I wanted to share one of the best articles I’ve read recently on the vexing issue of “teaching to the test.” Admittedly, I probably like this Washington Monthly article so much because it defends a point I’ve made repeatedly in … Continue reading
In my recent series of blog postings on the common core standards, I expressed concern about what would happen if and when states adopted more stringent and meaningful assessments tied to the new standards. Well, Florida just offered us a … Continue reading
I wanted to pass along a report on the progress made by students attending schools run by Los Angeles charter provider Green Dot. The study has the virtue of comparing these students with what sounds like a pretty comparable control … Continue reading
We may be hurtling toward implementation of common core educational standards for Language Arts and Mathematics standards . . . but when it comes to social studies and science, the hare’s not even in the race. The National Research Council … Continue reading
I wanted to continue posting on some of the implementation issues posed by the Common Core. My subject for today is assessment, or rather more accurately, lack thereof. Returning to the Education Week article that I cited in my last … Continue reading
I’d like to move past the subject of how quickly most state school boards adopted the common core, and tackle what is now probably a more important question: How quickly should we move forward to implement these standards? As I … Continue reading
