McCain Goes Virtual for Education
Today, during his speech to the NAACP, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain released his education plan. And, for a man who only last week was learning to go online (sorry, couldn’t resist), it’s...
View ArticleJay Greene’s Long Strange Voucher Trip
Jay Greene has published a long and weirdly incoherent response to this post on DC vouchers. Most of it I’m happy to let stand, but this (you have to run it through a negative de-sarcasticizer to find...
View ArticleSmarter Data Systems: The New York City Experience
Part VIII of the Five Principles for Smarter Data Systems series–a guest post from Arthur VanderVeen, Chief of Innovation, New York City Department of Education: … it is astoundingly difficult to...
View ArticleOpen Memo to Wonks, Pundits, and Bloggers
TO: Education policy wonks, pundits, bloggers, and/or twitter addicts A little depressed and wondering what you’ll write about now that Race to the Top’s first round winners have been revealed? Sure,...
View ArticleThe Course of Innovation
It’s rough out there for colleges these days. Budgets are down, enrollments are up, and the population they need to educate is increasingly composed of low-income or academically under-prepared...
View ArticleChoice in Education: Who should determine “quality?”
Life is full of choices. In fact, one semi-mathematical way to define the lives of individuals, organizations, and nations is simply to map out an almost-infinite series of choices that have been made...
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