Harvard Education Letter
Volume 25, Number 5
September/October 2009
Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools
An Interview with Karin Chenoweth
By CHRIS RAND

In her 2007 book, “It’s Being Done”: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools, former Washington Post columnist and Education Trust senior writer Karin Chenoweth used a strict set of criteria to identify fifteen schools with challenging student demographics that were [...]

Friday, November 27, 2009
 
The Columbus Dispatch editorial
 
 
Four months ago, The Dispatch opined that the state budget’s mandate for all-day kindergarten next school year is ill-defined and too expensive for many school districts. Since then, little has changed except that the State Board of Education has gotten into a squabble over the issue.
 
School districts still [...]

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, they created a $4.3 billion [...]

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 - our struggling [...]

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 from last [...]