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MARGIN NOTES: An education love triangle joins forces to invade Washington Post

Good will and holiday cheer all around as Michelle Rhee’s current fiance endorses her ex-husband in his quest to get a column in the newspaper Rhee spurns. Last week, the Sacramento G.O.P. accused Rhee of helping her fiance, Sacramento Mayor Kevin ...

From ELIZABETH GREEN, Gotham Schools,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company,  Michelle Rhee,  Kevin Johnson,  Arne Duncan,  Neko Case

NEWS: Remainders: Randi Weingarten for D.C. schools chancellor?

Post a comment about the budget cuts at your school on our interactive comment map. more » “NYC Charter parents are just like their fellow NYC public school parents; they run the gamut from dedicated, activist parent organizers to folks unengaged or ...

From ELIZABETH GREEN, Gotham Schools,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Randi Weingarten

MARGIN NOTES: Remembering an early education reformer, Ted Sizer

Ted Sizer, the educator and academic who was an education reformer before the term was popular, died yesterday. Here’s a list of tributes to him, compiled and circulated by John Merrow, and including one from our own Community contributor: Post a ...

From ELIZABETH GREEN, Gotham Schools,  23 Oct 2009

NEWS: Early Obama adviser waiting to see on schools strategy

An early adviser to President Obama on education issues, Christopher Edley, the dean of the law school at UC-Berkeley, today praised the president for following through on his promise to make schools a priority despite the tough times. But Edley said ...

From ELIZABETH GREEN, Gotham Schools,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Harvard University,  University of California Berkeley,  New York Public Library,  Joel I Klein

MARGIN NOTES: On Child Labor in Uzbekistan

File this in the changing-job-description department: Recognized as one of the most egregious examples of child labor in the world, students in Uzbekistan have been systematically forced by their government to leave school for months at a time to pick ...

From ELIZABETH GREEN, Gotham Schools,  14 Oct 2009

MARGIN NOTES: Clarification on our party: Don’t save tomorrow after all

Post a comment about the budget cuts at your school on our interactive comment map. more » “apparently the UFT is under the impression that the purpose of schools in NYC is to provide lifelong income for its members” 26 comments so far today The ...

From ELIZABETH GREEN, Gotham Schools,  14 Oct 2009

MARGIN NOTES: No sense in looking back

I’m reading the sociologist Bruce Fuller’s book “Inside Charter Schools”; subtitle: “The Paradox of Radical Decentralization.” This passage struck me: Ironically, education reformers often hold little sense of history, on the assumption that when ...

From ELIZABETH GREEN, Gotham Schools,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Joel I Klein,  RAND Corporation,  Arne Duncan,  Wall Street Journal

NEWS: At the Board of Ed, Thompson neither innovated nor obstructed

In a feature today, Anna Phillips reports on what Thompson was really like while president of the Board of Education: …That was Thompson the manager, whom former board members, colleagues, and even political rivals from that era describe as “fair,” ...

From ELIZABETH GREEN, Gotham Schools,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Randi Weingarten

MARGIN NOTES: Save the date: October 15

Post a comment about the budget cuts at your school on our interactive comment map. more » “Stop drinking the Kool Aid. In the 60s and 70s you could take mulitple languages, and learn to play an instrument properly, be properly instructed in physical ...

From ELIZABETH GREEN, Gotham Schools,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Randi Weingarten

MARGIN NOTES: Arne Duncan on NCLB: “We are lying to parents and children”

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is laying the groundwork for a reauthorized don’t-call-it-No Child Left Behind law right. This. Moment. He wants to keep a lot of the principles but change some of the on-the-ground details. Duncan didn’t say anything ...

From ELIZABETH GREEN, Gotham Schools,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Arne Duncan,  Twitter Inc,  Randi Weingarten

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