Oh, Really, Michael Winerip?
In today’s New York Times, Michael Winerip makes a startling statement: “There is one thing that characterizes a surprisingly large number of the people who are transforming public schools: they...
View ArticleAll BA’s are worth it. Some more than others.
The report (“What’s it Worth: the Economic Value of College Degrees”) Georgetown University put out last week on the earnings of college graduates based on their majors likely prompted some frank...
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The Bruce Randolph Rorschach Test
Poor Bruce Randolph School. First, President Obama praises the school in his 2011 State of the Union address. Then Diane Ravitch, in a New York Times op-ed, cited the school as an example of...
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Epic New York Times Fail on College, Punk Rock
When I wrote a piece for The New Republic a couple of months ago noting that the New York Times and Washington Post have an ignoble decades-long history of writing essentially bogus articles about the...
View ArticleGood Teaching Trumps Hi-Tech
This Sunday’s front page New York Times article by technology reporter Matt Richtel was ostensibly an examination of why, in classrooms outfitted with lots of digital gear, test scores were stagnant....
View ArticleThinking and Talking about Tech
The New York Times’ Sunday front page story by Matt Richtel stirred up lots of commentary on the value of digital media and computers in classrooms. The Hechinger Report did a roundup of the comments...
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Three Truths About Students in Higher Education
Copyright UMass UWW The girls at Brearley prep are simply flipping out! According to The New York Times, many Brearley seniors didn’t get into Yale early admissions which means they might actually...
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A Worrisome Tradeoff of the School Choice Movement
The New York Times’ most emailed articles list typically does not include the most hard-hitting journalism. Instead, the list features pet stories about Ivy League graduates forced to wait tables or,...
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How Education Reporting is just like Mad Men
Full disclosure: I was one of the analysts who was not reading this week, but rather watching the Mad Men finale. In fact, I’ve been doing a lot more watching than reading lately, and Matthew Weiner is...
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The Waiver Wire: Interventions for some, Improvement for all
The fallout from last week’s news that Washington and Wisconsin can join 24 other states with flexibility from NCLB has centered on the New York Times’ front-page coverage and whether ESEA waivers...
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