Posted in Policy on Feb 16th, 2009 8 Comments »
Sacramento’s new mayor, Kevin Johnson, is hosting an “invitation-only” all-day Education Summit on March 9th. Speakers include Michelle Rhee, the Chancellor of Washington, D.C. public schools, Joel Klein from New York City, and quite a few others who have successfully co-opted the phrase “school reform” to mean a lot of decidedly different things — in [...]
Posted in Policy on Feb 12th, 2009 4 Comments »
The last few weeks brings the intersection of two parts of federal education policy around what the rules and expectations will come down from the DOE of the new administration AND what money will go with it. Lets start out with the policy stuff. Tom Hoffman asks, Tuttle SVC: Is “No Comment” the Best [...]
Posted in Policy, Research, Theory on Jan 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
In my first post in this series on poverty and education, I introduced this work by economist Charles Karelis, Economist’s View: Is Poverty Caused by Irrational Behavior? which got to an underlying truth, that when you are poor, you may not be capable of making “rational” choices, because you have too many problems to deal [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, Policy, Practice, Research, Theory on Dec 31st, 2008 32 Comments »
Dangerously Irrelevant: Beware outside consultants? – Part 2, Ruby Payne started a whole slew of arguments about poverty. Can education “fix” poverty? Can eduction be effective without addressing the underlying poverty of the poor? There were a lot of assumptions, especially among those with a deficit view, that I’ll sum up as “poor folks, have [...]
Posted in Policy on Dec 7th, 2008 5 Comments »
Larry Ferlazzo asked me for a list of links on Michelle Rhee that were not just a “rant” (which is what I wrote). You may have some of your own (add them as a comment), here are mine:
When she first proposed an “alternative” non-tenure contract track, Dan Meyer had a post where the comments showed [...]
