This Week In Education: Debate: What Is "Ghetto Parenting"?

This Week In Education: Debate: What Is "Ghetto Parenting"?

Debate: What Is "Ghetto Parenting"?

by Alexander Russo

"Ghetto parenting is cursing around, and at, a child. Ghetto parenting is letting your child roam the streets until somebody else's mother has to tell the child to go home." Shocked? Bored? Me, too. This is from a recent Mary Mitchell column from the Chicago Sun Times in which some (many) readers thought Mitchell was denigrating poor families while others thought she was doing a valuable service in calling out bad parenting. There's a

Thompson: What Statisticians Whisper

by john thompson

Over at the National Journal's education blog, Kati Haycock defined an effective teacher as an angel bending over a blade of grass who "whispers, ‘Grow, grow.’" Somewhere, I imagine, there must be statisticians sitting at their desks whispering to their growth models, "be good enough, good enough." Reformers have caused a huge mess for the Obama Administration because they raced ahead with the