- Guess what? “Learning-style” theory and a host of other things we thought we knew about teaching and learning are hogwash. Indeed, the researchers conducting this study had only one word for describing the disconnect between research and reality: “disturbing.”
- This Boston Magazine exposé asks: Where would Massachusetts’s achievement be had the Bay State not taken so long to raise its charter cap, whose too low quota caused ed reformers and charter operators to flee (mostly south to New York City)?
- Are there really fewer children with special learning needs than earlier th is decade? That’s what these data from the 2009 Digest of Education Statistics say.
- Fordham’s own Checker Finn takes to the webpages of National Review Online to debunk California’s new “transitional kindergarten.” Don’t trust this universal preschool wolf now hiding in sheep’s clothing.
- D.C.’s Democratic mayoral primary is next week, and the race is all about education. What does this mean for mayorally-appointed D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee and her far-reaching reforms?
