Cross-posted from Education Week David Oh walked into my office yesterday. Oh is a city councilman from Philadelphia. I listened, fascinated and horrified, as he told a gripping story of his city. Nothing in his story should have surprised me, but this remarkable man has an...
Cross-posted from Education Week I feel, some days, as though I am trying to swim upstream when all about me are going in the other direction. I am hailing those going by me, saying, "Hey! Stop!" But they don't. They look at me and scratch their...
Cross-posted on Education Week Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor in the Carter administration is a distinguished labor economist - and personal friend - who long ago decided that education is perhaps the most important key to broadly shared prosperity in modern industrial economies. So he has...
Cross-posted on Education Week Choice is, as they say, as American as apple pie. Why shouldn't we be able to choose a school for our child among all the public schools our tax money pays for? Especially now, when there are so many different kinds of...
Cross-posted on Education Week David Brooks is, in my view, one of the most thoughtful and well-informed columnists writing today. So I was delighted to see that he had written a piece on the Chicago teachers' strike. Delighted, that is, until I saw what had written. In...
Cross-posted on Education Week I will weigh in on the substantive issues in the Chicago strike next week if it has not been settled by then. But here, in this blog, I offer a few reflections on the circular (dog bites man bites dog) character of...
Cross-posted on Education Week Shall I let you in on a little secret? Not long after the Obama administration took office, my colleague Betsy Brown Ruzzi and I paid a visit to an old friend, Carmel Martin, who had left behind many years as a senior...
Cross-posted on Education Week Last week's education blog by Jay Mathews in the Washington Post takes note of the release of Mitt Romney's education platform, compares it to that of the President and pronounces them "twins." The two parties, he says, largely agree on education policy...