- Participants in last week’s Race to the Top panel at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (including our own Mike Petrilli) asked a provocative question: Should ED take back money from RTTT-winning states that fail to deliver on their promises?
- Crystal Eastman once said, “a good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.” In a historical tour de force, Myron Magnet outlines the creeping tyranny of our government—led mostly by the courts—in the name of protection, eminent domain, and school equality. His education example: New Jersey’s Abbott decisions. Chilling, and well worth the read.
- Think of them as a PTA 2.0: Parent Revolution, Education Reform Now, and Stand for Children are all mobilizing parents against the education establishment—something your grandmother’s parent organization knew nothing about.
- In a win for the unions, digital education, and the students of Missouri (yes, you read it right, all three), the Show Me State’s governor repealed its knee-jerk ban on Facebook communication between teachers and their students.
- As various states and districts attempt to mend our tattered teacher-evaluation system, the folks at iNACOL have sewn together their own original set of teaching standards for digital educators. Those looking to revamp teacher-training programs would be wise to take note.
- Manhattan’s elite private high schools (at least a few of them) are ebbing homework responsibilities for their students; the burnout levels, they say, are just too high. Vicki Abbels would be proud. So would South Korea. Amy Chua, not so much.
- AP headline reads: “SAT Hires Former FBI Boss to Review Test Scruity.” Cheaters, look alive. College Board isn’t messing around on this one anymore.
