October 13, 2014 Archives

Week of October 13, 2014 Archives

RealClearEducation Analysis and Commentary

Monday, October 13

AP U.S. History Change Not Unpatriotic

Jay Mathews, Washington Post

Can We Find A Truce in the Teacher Wars?

M. Tooley, Weekly Wonk

What's Right About Common Core

Robert Pondiscio, National Review

Should You Go to Germany for Free College?

Rebecca Schuman, Slate

After Vergara Case, Listen to the Teachers

Lacey Jung, Los Angeles Times

Schools Short on Career Promises

Petr Svab, Epoch Times

Don't Let Politics Block Common Core

Bill Richardson, USA Today

The Queens College Prof's Pension

Editorial Board, New York Post

Tuesday, October 14

A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come

Andy Smarick, Flypaper

Where Do Biases Start? A Challenge to Educators

D.D. Prier, EdWeek

It's 2014, All Students Should Be Proficient?

Anya Kamenetz, NPR

Classes, Homework and Working with Refugees

Taylor Feuss, USA Today

Wednesday, October 15

Will Ed Tech Be the Next Growth Sector?

Eileen Rudden, Boston Globe

High-Stakes Tests Damage Reading Instruction

R. Pondiscio, Flypaper

Liberals and Affirmative Consent

Ross Douthat, The New York Times

Focus On Social Capital In School Reform Efforts

Leana & Pil, Shanker

The AFT's Lone Star Spend

RiShawn Biddle, Dropout Nation

Lawsuit Against Calif. District’s Athletic Inequalities

PELT, RCEd

Thursday, October 16

LAUSD Reform Efforts Must Not End with Deasy

Edit Board, LADN

Conservatives and Affirmative Consent

Ross Douthat, New York Times

The Virtue Of Boring In Education

Matthew Di Carlo, Shanker Blog

The Vergara Five

Allysia Finley, The Wall Street Journal

Deasy Wasn't Afraid to Try on Superman Cape

C.T. Kerchner, Hechinger

Lewis Leaves without Standard-Bearer

D. Mihalopoulos, Sun-Times

Did Harvard Go Too Far?

Adam Chandler, The Atlantic

Rural Charter Schooling – Boon Or Bust?

Andy Rotherham, Eduwonk

Tech Is Not the Answer: A Student's Perspective

B. Waldman, EdWeek

Reimagining Early-Childhood Ed

Kaufman, Kaufman & Nelson, EdWeek

Friday, October 17

Why We Should Embrace Charter Growth

Richard Whitmire, Hechinger

U.S. Schools Training Kids for a Nonexistent World

D. Edwards, Wired

Philadelphia School Failure

The Wall Street Journal

Why Colleges Don’t Want to Be Judged by Grad Rates

Chronicle

Calif. Cond. Favorable for 'Core' Implementation

L. Freedberg, EdSource

Income Share Agreements in Higher Ed Financing

Beth Akers, Brookings

A Creative Way to Educate Low-Income Students

D. Fellows, Atlantic

5-Year High Schools Challenge K-12 Model

Tim Nesbitt, Oregonian