October 2009
New York Times Op-Ed: The Quiet Revolution »
October 23, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist The Quiet Revolution By DAVID BROOKS New York Times op-ed A few weeks ago, “Saturday Night Live” teased President Obama for delivering great speeches but not actually bringing change. There’s at least one area where that jibe is unfair: education. When Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan came to office, [...]
The Columbus Dispatch: Settlement to aid special-needs education; School districts must offer required services »
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 By Catherine Candisky THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The parents of Ohio’s 280,000 students with special needs should find it easier to ensure their children are receiving an appropriate education. A federal judge approved the partial settlement yesterday of an 18-year-old class-action lawsuit filed against the state by eight students with disabilities [...]
The New York Times: The New Untouchables »
October 21, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist The New Untouchables By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Last summer I attended a talk by Michelle Rhee, the dynamic chancellor of public schools in Washington. Just before the session began, a man came up, introduced himself as Todd Martin and whispered to me that what Rhee was about to speak about [...]
Columbus Dispatch – E-Team Blog: The middle school drain »
We already know that Columbus loses the most students at the middle school level – that’s not new. But district officials detailed the most recent numbers at a committee meeting yesterday. Steve Tankovich, executive director of accountability systems, said he thinks the loss at the middle-school level is stabilizing and offered these numbers, the loss [...]
New York Times: A Moo-Moo Here, and Better Test Scores Later »
October 20, 2009 By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ New York Times On the bus ride to the farm, the children sang rounds of “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” and a boy yelled, “I love pumpkin pie!” But it soon became clear that this was a field “study”- as the teachers called it – not a field [...]
