Rural Areas Suffer Even Greater in an Weak Educational System
A weak education system existing in today’s urban America is even more so in rural areas. Political and education leaders must focus on creating the policy conditions and more fully integrating the...
View ArticleAnother Lesson in Political Accountability: It’s Mostly an Oxymoron
Hope often triumphs over experience because change is difficult. So, we imagine that changing key officeholders, or some policy tweak, will suddenly make something happen that has been rare or unheard...
View ArticleAnother Devastating Unintended Side Effect of the System’s Appearance of...
The widespread perception that, “any sort of tracking is classist and racist” is very costly. Former Assistant Secretary of Education Michael Petrilli notes that it leads to excessively diverse public...
View ArticleMore Evidence of School System Failure, But not of “Failure of Market Reform”
Recent mail included an announcement of Left Behind: Urban High Schools and the Failure of Market Reform (John Hopkins Press, 2015). Okay, so we have another finding that what is being tried — the...
View ArticlePlease De-Personalize School System Failure
One of a series of Education Week articles on the New Orleans School System ten years after Katrina discusses the mass firings of the New Orleans (NOLA) public school teachers. A common theme of the...
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