Five Best Blogs: Peevish Hot Tuesday After A Long Weekend

More than half of US charters are authorized by local school districts, reminds @ThompsonEdu via @Nacsa ow.ly/be2u3

When big data is bad data : CJR ow.ly/be2jQColumbia j-school prof. LynNell Hancock on publishing value-added 

Is the Word 'Innovation' Bad for Education?bit.ly/KD2vzW @jtomassini channels @DanaGoldstein

MT@mikephillips1: @m_rhee #s are right: $286B of $563B (51%) goes to classroom, per @usedgov F-33 survey 

From Jay Mathews: Why Romney, Obama are education twins: Poor Mitt Romney. He appoints a splendid group of educa... wapo.st/Kv4pTe

Comments

[Sarah]

What Jay Mathews says is true. Other than Romney’s bizarre idea that our schools are third-world, the two men think pretty much identically as far as education goes.

[Sarah]

Re: Innovation - there are always words that get heavily overused and start to become annoying. My father hates the word "doable" with a passion. For a while in the 90s, the CEOs of his employer used that word at least once per sentence, possibly twice.

I think about words that I've had teachers and professors over use, and there's always something. Ginormous is one that comes to mind. I can't count the number of times I've heard "I won't give you an ginormous assignment over the break..."