D.C. Mayor Gray needs a history lesson on apartheid
D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray, while speaking about the legacy of the great Nelson Mandela, drew parallels between the inhuman system of apartheid that lasted for decades in South Africa and the citizenship restrictions that D.C. residents are forced to live under in the nation’s capital. Here’s what he said on Friday: I think there […]
How to get effective teachers in the most needy schools
We just lived through PISA week, complete with newly released scores from the 2012 Program of International Student Assessment and the avalanche of media coverage about the results. Here’s a post on education beyond PISA by Jeff Bryant, an Associate Fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future and the owner of a marketing and communications […]
Education innovation: A case study in what not to do
The $1 billion initiative by the Los Angeles public schools district to give an iPad to all 650,000 students and teachers for home use has been nothing short of a mess, plagued by poor planning and bad execution. You can read about it here. Here’s a new look at what went wrong from Larry Cuban, a […]
All Week @ The Answer Sheet 12-7-13
The Answer Sheet: mark as readUC system president Napolitano ‘deeply skeptical’ about Education’s college rating systemJanet Napolitano, who was President Obama’s Homeland Security secretary before being named president of the University of California system this past summer, said Friday that she was “deeply skeptical” of a plan by the administration to rate colleges according to specific criteria