Kevin Carey’s post at The Quick and the Ed clarifies what’s going on in education reform right now and how’s it’s changed since the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2001. We’re in what Carey calls the “post-NCLB era of education reform.” For one thing, today’s major players are different: When I began [...]
Reading the David Brooks op ed description of the oil clean-up fiasco in the Gulf, I couldn’t help thinking about education. Apply this quote about the clean up to the growing federal role in education, whether it’s Race to the Top, a national curriculum or No Child Left Behind (though I still think NCLB had [...]
Chad Aldeman, writing at The Quick and the Ed, argues that school choice is not a good in itself. Specifically, he takes issue with what Charles Murray has to say in the NYT today in an op-ed entitled “Why Charter Schools Fail the Test.” Murray’s wrong, but Aldeman is even more wrong. Aldeman says that [...]
The meme in education circles has changed in the last few days. The focus has shifted from Race to the Top to Ed Secretary Arne Duncan and the Obama administration’s Department of Education. Instead of asking just how much the states will have to change and do to have a chance at billions in grant [...]