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Hard-hitting Newsweek piece on Weingarten and Rhee.  What’s the over-under on how many weeks/months/years this adds on to the contract negotiations in DC?

Andy Smarick writes-up the final regulations.   You can read all the docs here.    But while he raises some important points, I think he misses the big understory, which is the evidence standards in the final draft.  There was a pretty hot debate about them before the draft regs, and again before the final regs, and these standards set a [...]

Debate and reasoning skills are essential — God knows our field could use more.  Here’s a chance to help with that, and an important Edujob: Executive Director for Urban Debate Leagues (pdf). Signed copy of a picture of Tubbs Justin Cohen with a gun to the first reader who can name both the leading foundation official in our [...]

Nothing changes in this business.  Senator Lieberman has a voucher amendment on a piece of legislation moving through the Senate, the education interest groups send letters about how they hate it.

Here’s the list of states invited to come to Washington: CO, DE, DC, FL, GA, IL, KY, LA, MA, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, SC,  & TN. First reaction*:  With the obvious caveat that not all these states get money in the first round, still sort of an “uh oh.”   Some states with good apps here but OH and NY [...]

This review of Diane Ravitch’s new book, by Checker Finn in Forbes, seems likely to be the most important thing that’s going to be written about that book.   Similar diagnosis, radically different conclusions.   Given their shared histories and instrumental roles in getting us to where we are today, the divergence is profound.

At last some context on Central Falls, courtesy of  a bold move by Jay Mathews.   The amount of misinformation floating around about the situation up there is amazing, you’d think it would be inversely related instead it’s proportionate.   I’m surprised the unions want to turn this into Little Big Horn.   The facts are not very sympathetic in [...]

In The New York Daily News Rob Saldin and I rise to the defense of the filibuster.  Punchline:  It’s not the problem, our broken political culture is.

I’m going to hazard a guess that most of the coverage of this new teacher survey from Scholastic and Gates is being written from secondhand accounts or press releases.   The actual survey is robust (it’s enormous) and a lot more complicated than the first day stories are letting on.  Lots of interesting implications for today’s debates [...]

Cheryl L. Sattler turns in a smart and important piece on IASA and NCLB history and the federal role in K-12.

Closing the achievement gap.

Interview with San Francisco';s Carlos Garcia.

Growing great administrators

The superintendent of LAUSD talks with Administrator about his biggest challenges in the wake of California';s budget crisis.

The U.K. pioneered the importance of teacher buy-in, effective planning, and curriculum integration.

New perspectives on raising reading achievement.

Districts around the country are finding innovative ways to lure students into science and math education.

Reviews of the top Web Filtering security solutions.

hardware and software tech

Washington';s held up in talks, but schools need money now.