The sweet clamor of confusion is coming out of Florida. The source of the confusion is the tension between the United States Department of Education’s (ED’s) waiver of No Child Left Behind’s (NCLB) supplemental educational services (SES) requirements and a…
Both the LA Times and New York Times recently published value-added scores of teachers. Much debate, to say the least, has ensued. So what’s a Relinquisher (someone who supports public regulation but non-profit operation of schools) to make of all…
Andre Shleifer, a professor of Economics at Harvard, recently wrote an excellent article: “Seven Things I Learned About Transition from Communism.” In case you don’t know Andre, some consider him to be the most cited economist in the world. The…
Education reform debates often pit “no excuses” charter schools against the greater national teaching workforce. This is generally tiresome on all fronts. In particular, a critical element — teacher support — isn’t even in the ring. It is buried underneath…
We are in the New Year and that means another revolutionary twelve months of education policy lies before us. “Revolutionary” is, of course, a relative term for education policy, just as the speed of the slug is relative to that…
You might be familiar with these stats: the average urban education superintendent’s tenure is 3.6 years (56 percent improvement since 1999, when it was 2.3 years). In the private sector, average CEO tenure is around 7 years, nearly double that…
This week, Michele McNeil reported on the strong demand for the second round of the Investing in Innovation program, known as the i3 grant. According to the latest statistics, which you can find at ed.data.gov, there are 587 applicants with…
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