August 11, 2014 Archives

Week of August 11, 2014 Archives

RealClearEducation Analysis and Commentary

Monday, August 11

Parent Taught 7th Grade English for 9 Weeks

L.F. Page, Times-Picayune

The NCAA Still Doesn’t Care About Athletes

Josh Levin, Slate

99-Page O'Bannon Ruling Missing Clarity

Strauss, Eder & Tracy, NYT

Ind. Gov. Pence's Ed Agency Undermining Me

G. Ritz, Journal & Courier

School Reform Gets Up Close and Political

Editorial Board, The Tennessean

Rappers Say What Kids Feel on Ed Inequality

Kevin Clay, The Root

Inequality in Education

Kevin D. Williamson, National Review

Tuesday, August 12

Philly District’s Ongoing Financial Crisis

Caskey & Kuperberg, EdNext

Tough Questions, Curious Choices

Robert Pondiscio, Common Core Watch

Suspicionless Pat-Down Searches Before School Events?

PELT, RCEd

Wednesday, August 13

Student Debt Does Not 'Crush' Ability to Own a Home

J. Weissman, Slate

More Ed = Delayed Fertility = More Mobility?

Brad Hershbein, Brookings

Appification and Education: Students Who Know

S. Guengerich, Wired

'This Is Not a Test' Shifts Ed Perspectives

Daniel Willingham, RealClearEd

Education Isn't Enough for a Just Recovery

Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe

Can the GOP Ever Attract Black Voters?

Jelani Cobb, The New York Times

The Lower Ambitions of Higher Education

Dwight Garner, NY Times

What the U.S. Could Learn from Polish Ed

Sean Williams, USA Today

Thursday, August 14

Michael Brown's School

Mark Sumner, Daily Kos

My Chinese Education

Tsering Woeser, The New York Times

We Don't Know How to Make Great Teachers

Bernard Fryshman, EdWeek

The O'Bannon Ruling: 'Student-Athlete' Is History

Editorial Board, NYT

The O'Bannon Ruling: College Athletes Win

Editorial Board, NY Times

Policy Choices for Measuring Student Learning

Ben Miller, EdCentral

Why Is Competency-Based Ed So Hard to Study?

J. Freeland, Christensen

Darkness at Noon on the Campus Quad

Thomas K. Lindsay, RCPolicy

Friday, August 15

Most Who Didn't Graduate HS Need Common Core

Jenny Sedlis, NYDN

Don't Dismiss the Humanities

Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times

The Semantics Of Test Scores

Jennifer Borgioli, Shanker Blong

Vergara Decision Signals 3rd Wave of Ed Reform

Joshua Lewis, Wash Post

MOOCs: The True Costs of Free Online Ed

Michael Cusumano, MIT Sloan

Why Textbooks Cost So Much

The Economist