- The Academy Award nominations have been announced and, though shortlisted, Waiting for ‘Superman’ didn’t make the cut. Assuredly, this news comes to the chagrin of the Gates Foundation, who pumped $2 million into WSF advertising. So, who is happy about the news? Well, Valerie Strauss for one.
- If you want to learn, stop studying and start testing. Sounds reasonable enough.
- Gifted students present a unique dilemma to general—and special—educators. When these students aren’t simply one or two grades above level, this dilemma takes on greater magnitude. Education Next offers an interesting look at challenging the gifted.
- Ohio mother Kelly Williams-Bolar recently finished a ten-day jail term for the crime of “sending your children to a better school than your zoned district school.” Yep, it’s true. Williams-Bolar was caught after a district-hired private investigator traced her true home to the wrong side of the tracks.
- New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez attacked a unique line item when slashing $30 million from her 2011 education budget: School principals.
- In a pandering move to the unions, D.C. Mayor Vince Gray recently criticized the District’s teacher evaluation and performance pay plan: IMPACT. Lest Mayor Gray, and the unions, forget, IMPACT is attached to gobs of philanthropic funds—funds needed to keep those plush D.C. teacher salaries alive and well.
- The problems of America’s education situation are relative. Compared to Britain and The Netherlands, we’re sitting pretty. For now.
