Politics: Mitch Daniels (R-IN) Poised To Take Education Mantle [image: image from images.rcp.realclearpolitics.com] Call it the second coming of Jeb Bush. Indiana's Mitch Daniels has just passed four education bills that RealClearPolitics describes glowingly as "some of the most sweeping education changes in ...
Ratings: Clothing Labels Show Dangers Of Unreliable Measures [image: image from graphics8.nytimes.com] Before anyone starts letting states or districts make up their own school rating systems again, let's take a look at the always-informative world of fashion. There, as noted in this recent NYT story ...
Thompson: Pay Kids To Take Advanced Placement [image: Top-one-percent]Retired Advanced Placement teacher Junia Yearwood recently described in the Boston Globe the rage felt by a student who had earned a "D" as a junior but who was put in a senior A.P. class. He and other students weren't ...
