Latest News and Comment from Education

Thursday, June 23, 2011

A response from Joel Klein on status quo apologists - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

A response from Joel Klein on status quo apologists - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

A response from Joel Klein on status quo apologists

Earlier this month I published a post by Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, that challenged former New York City Schools chancellor Joel Klein’s take on education reform in an op-ed Klein had written earlier this month for The Washington Post.

Below, Klein responds to Pallas.

Pallas writes the Sociological Eye on Education blog for The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, non-partisan education-news outlet affiliated with the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media. Pallas has also taught at Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Northwestern University, and served as a statistician at the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education.

Read full article >>

Positioning young black males for success

--

This was written by Michael T. Nettles, senior vice president and the Edmund W. Gordon chair of the Educational Testing Service’s Policy Evaluation & Research Center.

Read full article >>