This week's Education Gadfly should have you riveted: Checker and Mike respond to President Obama's address to the nation (in which he talked tough about everything...except education) and panelists at an event for the release of our new report, The Accountability Illusion, agree that national standards are a must. You can read up on a failing charter school principal's quest to misrepresent thriving charter schools and learn about the fate of a high schooler who ignored demands to stop texting in class.
And don't forget about this week's Education Gadfly Show podcast. This week, Mike and Rick discuss increasing class size, increasing the federal role (and New York Times' na????vet????), and decreasing school years in Oregon. Then Amber gives us the low down on Tom Loveless's new Brown Center report on education and Rate that Reform explains the death of fun at school dances. Don't miss this week's Education Gadfly Show!