- Lynne Munson of Common Core offers a worthwhile perspective on how to ramp up America’s international competitiveness in the recent Educational Leadership—the key: stop harping on structure and bring focus back to a well-rounded, rigorous curriculum.
- There’s been much moving and shaking in the states this week: Minnesota loosened its teacher-certification law, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is preparing to revamp the state’s teacher- and principal-evaluation systems, Wisconsin Democrats have been found in contempt, and Pennsylvania’s budget pushed the state in a whole new direction.
- In the UK, they call it “deliverology”; in Louisiana, they call it “common sense.” Whatever the name, Michael Barber’s education-delivery plan is gaining steam across the U.S.
- Even with recent clashes in the states, President Obama is still bent on pushing education as a bipartisan issue. Now he’s recruited Jeb Bush to help prove the point.
- To accept or not to accept? Texas is waging an internal battle as its Democrats and Republicans spar over how to use the state’s $830 million in federal education-stimulus funding, thus far unclaimed.
