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…
If we think of education reform as beginning with the publication of “A Nation at Risk” in 1983, we can think of the current period as “Reform 1.0”. With the soon-to-be-implemented Common Core State Standards Initiative (and the “vast machinery”…
In a time of shrinking budgets and increasing pressure to succeed in a way that has never been expected before, effectiveness will of necessity be linked to cost. Evaluations of the interventions we employ will be conducted through the lens…
Change is difficult in public education. There are many reasons for this but the way we finance our schools is one of the larger obstacles. Our school districts are not set up to fund innovation. They distribute funds based on…
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…
The world of education was knocked off its axis this week. And it seems that education hardly noticed. (Perhaps that’s because it’s been a bit “off-axis” all along.) Rolling off the presses, er… ether, just a few days ago, was…
It seems some officials at the U.S. Department of Education took issue with a recent Title I-Derland post describing guidance on Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waivers as a “striking departure” from departmental precedent and a violation of ED…
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