Morning Notes From The Blogger Summit
From the EDIN08 Blogger Summit: Governor Romer wants governors to adopt higher standards -- with financial support from the feds. USA Today's Richard Whitmire thinks that the campaign will turn back towards education in the general election -- towards early childhood, specifically. The AFT (John Mitchell) and the Ed Trust (Amy Wilkins) are still arguing over whether NCLB grades schools based on a "single test." Newt still gives great one-liners, agree with him or not: "Given the slow pace of adoption by education bureaucracies, laptop computers will have to come down to $11 before they're adopted by the Detroit school system." A paraphrase. Blogger, teacher, and author Dan Brown has asked the most intense questions so far -- one about high stakes testing and the about the dangers of taking an extreme de-Bathification approach to bypassing educators. TMAO (Kilian) red-eyed it from the West Coast but is ready to go. Will Okun, too. They're a woman here Sylvia Martinez with her laptop pointed towards the podium -- she's ustreaming the event (live streaming video). Very cool. I'm sitting at a table with five other education bloggers. Wish you were here. Cheers until later.
More posts from or about the summit here.