What We’re Watching: AEI Event on Cage-Busting Leadership
Chris Barbic, Deb Gist, Kaya Henderson, Adrian Manuel, and Michelle Rhee were at AEI to discuss Rick Hess’s new book on the constraints education leaders face (and imagine).
Another Real Winner in Wisconsin—Real Clear Politics
My colleagues and I went out on a limb yesterday when we wrote an op-ed piece saying that teacher unions were in trouble. So I watched the news last night with a worried eye after CNN told me that the exit polls in Wisconsin showed a tight race.
A Race to Fix Education Governance?
How very refreshing, even exhilarating, the inclusion of superintendents and boards in a results-based accountability system.
Bush Saves Romney From Etch A Sketch Hell!
As was widely reported Jeb Bush endorsed Mitt Romney yesterday. The Times called it a “coveted endorsement”—and indeed it is, no matter how much fun Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich had at poor Eric Fehrnstrom’s expense.
Rhode Island’s Landmark Pension Reform
Last night, by overwhelming margins, the Rhode Island legislature passed what may be the nation’s most comprehensive state public employee pension reform ever.
Zen and the Art of School Board Maintenance
The problem is that local school boards can’t wait around for the folks who have caused our cancers to cure them.
Leading the Recovery School District Six Years After Katrina
Since May, the leader of the Recovery School District, the state agency that now runs most New Orleans schools, has been John White, a 35-year-old Teach for America alum who had been serving as a deputy chancellor in New York City.
Importing Leaders for Turnarounds
Potentially thousands of leaders capable of managing successful school turnarounds work outside education, in nonprofit and health organizations, the military, and the private sector.
How to Run Public Schools in the 21st Century
Almost everyone who cares about revitalizing American primary-secondary education senses that many of its fundamental structures are archaic and its governance arrangements dysfunctional. Yet any effort to address those problems typically leads either to a glazed look on the visage of the putative audience or else to eye-rolling and shoulder-shrugging.
Anne Bryant: It’s “Wrong” for Unions to “Buy” School Board Seats
The defense of “the school board as we know it” just got dramatically weaker. And Anne Bryant’s place in the pantheon of impatient reformers just got more secure.
The Problems of Education Governance in Twenty-First Century America
The shortcomings of elected local school boards are only the most obvious of the many problems of education governance in the United States in 2011.
Assessing New York’s Commissioner of Education
With Steiner’s sudden resignation, will the state continue its Race to the Top?
With Steiner’s sudden resignation, will the state continue its Race to the Top?
New Schools in New Orleans
School reform both exhilarated and imperiled by success
School reform both exhilarated and imperiled by success
Re-Imagining Local Control
Writing last week in the Wall Street Journal, Diane Ravitch challenged resurgent Congressional Republicans to return K-12 education to “local control” and to repudiate and reverse the nationalizing/federalizing tendencies of No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Common Core standards, etc.
Toothless Reform?
If the feds get tough, Race to the Top might work
If the feds get tough, Race to the Top might work
Total Student Load
Maybe worth a longer look, but hardly a revolution
Review of William Ouchi’s The Secret of TSL
Tale of Two Cities
Why do minorities do so well in Raleigh and so poorly in Syracuse?
Review of Gerald Grant’s Hope and Despair in the ?American City
Brighter Choices in Albany
City's charter schools outshine the competition.
Reformers in New York’s capital have brought high-quality charter schools to scale, giving hope to a generation of disadvantaged kids.
Time for School?
When the snow falls, test scores also drop
When the snow falls, test scores also drop
Lost Opportunities
Lawmakers threaten D.C. scholarships despite evidence of benefits
Lawmakers threaten D.C. scholarships despite evidence of benefits
