This Week In Education: Thompson: "Reform" Could Hurt Obama Re-Election Chances

This Week In Education: Thompson: "Reform" Could Hurt Obama Re-Election Chances:

Thompson: "Reform" Could Hurt Obama Re-Election Chances

by john thompson

Twenty-five years ago, the New Deal safety net, and the Democratic coalition that it spawned, were aging. School reform was just one of the neoliberal efforts to update federal policy for the 21st century. Even then, observes William Galston in the New Republic , Americans believed that the federal government wasted 38 cents of every dollar. Now we believe that 51 cents is wasted, and that is the highest estimate ever recorded. Since voters are less skeptical about state and local government, federal school reform never was risk-free. But it created an opportunity for progressives to

NCLB: It's The States, Stupid

by Alexander Russo

There's lots to like about this Kevin Carey piece in The New Republic, perhaps most of all his description of the yawning gap between NCLB's actual strength and its perceived punitiveness: "NCLB has ended up in the worst of all possible worlds—it has the reputation of being a punitive, anti-teacher law without any of the benefits of being so." The piece also nicely

AM News: Disproportionate Suspensions For Minority Students

by Avi Wolfman-Arent

Report shows minority students suspended at higher rates USA Today: U.S. public schools suspend black, Hispanic and disabled students at much higher rates than others, according to a new report.

White House says bill would save 400,000 education jobs Politics K-12: The American Jobs Act proposed by president Obama last month would save nearly 400,000 educator jobs if states spent all the money in one year, according to a report released today by the White House.

Thieves Scam Aid From Online Education Sites NPR: An inspector general's report found that scam artists are taking advantage of the