A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down from the Thomas B. Boredom Finnstitute.
News from Fordham: As of April 1, 2010, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Foundation will cease operations in Ohio. With great sadness, we must bid adieu to the home state of our original benefactor and namesake, Thomas B. Fordham. Nor is it our choice. By executive order of Governor Ted Strickland and??with bipartisan support from the Ohio General Assembly, the Institute and Foundation have been permanently banned from the Buckeye State for ???egregious rabble-rousing, libel, and stymieing of pretty much everyone's education reform agenda.?????Read our press release??here.
This week on the??Education Gladfly Show Podcast:??Rick Hess, over-exposed
Contents
From Arne's Desk
- Race to the Top Round 1 Winners (A memo from Arne to Rahm, re: RTTT)
Recommended Rantings
- It's Greek to us (Debt-ridden Greece applies for RTTT funds)
- Golf gets a second tailwind (Could Tiger Woods have changed the image of golf forever?)
- Mint Madness (Watch your waistlines--that Thin Mint won't make you a thin mint)
- Better ingredients. Better schools. (Turnaround inspiration from fast food)
- It's the only way (The marriage of philanthropy and government is complete)
- Redneck granola (Whole Foods stands to profit from a new clientele demographic)
Flyparchment's Worst
- Neal McCluskey denounces all standards (Why do we need standards in anything, anyway?)
- I say tight, you say loose, you're a silly silly goose (Internal disagreements at Fordham caught on film)
The Edumacation Gladfly Show Podcast
- Rick Hess, over-exposed (Way more Rick than you ever bargained for)
Terse Retrospectives
- Voice Without Equity: Hip-Hop Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards (It's not just charter schools--other sectors suffer from too much "blackness" too)
- The Best Charter Study Ever in The History of All Charter Studies Ever Done Up To This Point (Can we resolve this debate? Obama thinks so)
Bloviation from our Readers
- Fordham sets a terrible example (Indiscriminate spending on day-to-day operations is unacceptable)
Declarations
- Salahis seen on seventh floor (Fordham event gets crashed)
- The left wants YOU! (Now you can run all the left-of-center ed policy shops in Washington, single-handedly)
- Ravitch changes mind, again (But don't worry, she's pretty sure she's figured it out this time)
