This Week In Education

This Week In Education

Thompson: The Question Brill's Editor Should have Asked

Edweek questioner: Has anyone carefully read the research put forth by Duncan to justify RTTT?

Steven Brill: I think there is multiple research the reformers would cite, some of which I mentioned in the article. The Gates Foundation in particular has done a great deal. But I would put that question to the Department.

Media: Times Buys Another Blog - Why Not GothamSchools? [image: image from blogs.psychsterdata.com] Kottke tells us that the NYT is absorbing yet another blog. It's taken in Freakonomics and several others in the recent past. Which makes me wonder why it doesn't take GothamSchools, the NYC-based blog ...

Video: Beyond "The Ideology Of Carrots & Sticks" This Dan Pink video podcast is especially appropriate given the poor results some of the much-touted pay for performance pilots are turning in: Stop treating workers like `slower, smaller, better smelling horses' (Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune) Turn it ...

Thompson: The Question Brill's Editor Should have Asked [image: Research] Edweek questioner: Has anyone carefully read the research put forth by Duncan to justify RTTT? Steven Brill: I think there is multiple research the reformers would cite, some of which I mentioned in the article. The Gates ...