Tiger Mom Triumph Gawker: Perfect daughter Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld—offspring of mean Chinese "tiger mother" Amy Chua—has got into Harvard, and plans to matriculate this fall... Justices Weigh Youths' Miranda RightsMark Walsh: The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sharply split on Wednesday over a case about the police interrogation at school of a 13-year-old student suspected of committing neighborhood thefts... In Performance Evaluations, Subjectivity Is Not Random Shanker Blog: Bias tends to operate in a manner that disproportionately affects workers from traditionally disadvantaged social groups, such as women and African Americans. What’s worse – it’s just as likely to occur within as between groups, and we often do it without realizing... Three Lessons Education Reformers Should Learn From Michelle Rhee's Missteps GOOD: The challenge in the coming weeks will be whether Rhee and her supporters can admit that some of her well-intentioned reforms aren't panning out and adjust their approach to improving public education accordingly... If D.C. Schools Changed Answers, Kids Are Being Cheated Bill Tucker: Before we heed reactionary calls to end standardized testing, it's important to remember the decades of willful neglect prior to NCLB... What Jeb Bush doesn’t like to admit Valerie Strauss: The first is Bush’s own creation of the Florida Reading Research Center, a state technical assistance agency solely focused on providing reading assistance -- complete with reading coaches... Grass Greener For Some Grass Cutters: 18 landscapers made more than $50,000 last year working for Broward County schools. Seventeen stock clerks earned $52,000 or more; two mail clerks were paid $49,000...Guaranteeing my future employment Jay Mathews: In my experience, [family and friends] are often full of ill-considered opinions different from my own — but maybe that’s just me...
