Five Best Blogs: Whatever Happened To Universal Preschool?

A Tea Party Defeat on Schools in North Carolina Century Foundation:   The rebound in support for integration in Wake County echoes earlier fights in districts like La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Is Occupy Wall Street Really about Education Reform? Amanda Ripley Blog: Occupy Wall Street is about our nation’s willingness to over-promise and under-educate. It is about the urgent need to finally get serious about making our education system worthy of our ambition.  

Preschool Wars Go Mainstream ERS: Time Magazine’s “The Preschool Wars” provides a powerful summary of what’s happening—or what’s not happening—to protect it. 

Is the Charter School Boom Really Good for Kids? GOOD:   Instead of ensuring that those ideas are passed back to traditional schools and to other charters, districts are handing out new charters like candy, creating an atmosphere where pretty much anyone with some semblance of a plan can open a school.

Excellence in Failure Jay P. Greene: These generous severance packages are the fault of boards, not the departing executive.  Boards sometimes choose to get rid of someone on a whim or simply because the majority composition of the board changes.  

The Coming Digital Learning Battle Paul E. Peterson: School districts and teacher unions can be expected to fight publicly funded online learning that offers students a choice of taking courses outside their local district school.  

Comments

[Jay P. Greene]

Thanks for the link, Alex,but the omission of the word "sometimes" from your summary changes the meaning of what I said. I wrote: "Of course, sometimes these generous severance packages are the fault of boards, not the departing executive. Boards sometimes choose to get rid of someone on a whim or simply because the majority composition of the board changes."

Quite often the departing executive (superintendent, coach, CEO) deserves plenty of blame for doing such an awful job that boards are willing to pay them to go away.

[danny]

the whole system needs a overhaul in my opinion. wont be easy tho