Introducing the Coolest New Gadget of the Year – just in time for last-day shopping! The Reform-inator! Can be used … More
Month: December 2010
Is it the “New Normal” or the “New Stupid?”
I’ll admit from the start that I’m recycling some arguments here (okay… all of the arguments) … but this stuff … More
A few comments on the Gates/Kane value-added study
A few comments on the Gates/Kane Value-added study (My apologies in advance for an excessively technical, research geeky post, but … More
Still searching for that pot of gold
The rhetoric about our decades-long drunken spending spree just won’t stop, nor will the rhetoric that the money is all … More
The problem? Cheerleading and Ceramics, of course!
David Reber with the Topeka Examiner had a great post a while back (April, 2010) addressing the deceptive logic that … More
Potential abuses of the Parent Trigger???
This article in the LA Times has been getting a lot of buzz today – http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-compton-parents-20101207,0,1116485.story The article discusses the … More
The Circular Logic of Quality-Based Layoff Arguments
Many pundits are responding enthusiastically to the new LA Times article on quality-based layoffs – or how dismissing teachers based … More
The Curious Duplicity of NCTQ
NCTQ fashions itself as a leading think tank on promoting teacher quality in K-12 education. NCTQ adopts a relatively extreme … More
Ed Schools
Ed schools seem to make an easy target in public policy debates over the quality of American public schooling and … More
Truly Uncommon in Newark…
A while back I wrote a post explaining why I felt that while Robert Treat Academy Charter School in Newark … More