Testing, belief, charters, economists pretending to understand education, early reading and David Brooks bloviation-- all this week at Curmudgucation.
PennLive covers some of the outsized influence of charter school operators in Pennsylvania
A Win for Pennsylvania’s New Governor
New PA governor Tom Wolf took his first official stand on a charter-related issue, and it was good news for public education.
Out in Chicago, the federal government once again revealed that it’s not really interested in letting local districts chart their own course.
Economist Hansuhek Gets It Wrong Again
Eric Hanushek turned up in the NYT with some thoughts about how to get a better teaching force. It’s mostly baloney.
Your Granular Achievement Report
Achieve showed us a version of the reports that parents will get back from big CCSS testing. If this is supposed to be detailed information for families, then I am the queen of Rumania.
The national PTA continues to support Common Core testing with arguments flimsier than a fairy’s wing.
Florida was one of the states to enter testing season this week. According to some reports, testing did not go well.
David Brooks Gets Everything Wrong
David Brooks has some thoughts about education and why public education is just one more reason that poor people are at fault for being poor.
In US News, Robert Pondiscio says that the Common Core requirement for kindergarten reading is perfectly okay. Here’s how he got it wrong.
Should we believe in charter schools? Do they have anything to teach us about believing in students and their success?
Super Sardinemastery: Paying More To Teach More
Georgetown’s Edunomics group wants to make one more pitch for paying teachers more to get them to take huge classes. Wrong.