Education
In a comment to my previous post, Rhody writes: … go to 401(k) first. Then we can sort out the seniority/merit issues. Who decides who gets the merit raises? The only way you can do this fairly is have teachers teach to a test – whoever has the highest number of students pass gets the…
A comment from Norman to Andrew’s “Cross-Examination” post in the Laffey/Chafee series caught my eye: … we can’t patch a quick fix on to our education problems. Chafee is right that we have to reinvest in the public schools that made America great. If we send money to private institutions we will further marginalize the…
What do George Soros’ and John Podesta’s Center for American Progress, New York Gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer, former Clinton Administration member Joel Klein, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Enterprise Institute all have in common? They all think that Teachers’ Unions are a major impediment to school reform. Morton Kondracke explains: The U.S.…
In case you missed it over the long weekend, Sunday’s Projo had a very good column on school choice by Julia Steiny. Read Steiny’s column together with the recent Pawtucket Times article by David Casey describing the education reform plan put forth by an alliance of Rhode Island labor groups (the full report is available…
Rhode Island is ranked sixth amongst the six New England states in science education, and has not shown any improvement in the last five years. Here’s the Projo‘s Jennifer D. Jordan on the subject… Rhode Island’s science scores have not improved in the past five years, even as lawmakers and educators begin to place more…
The Education Partnership has announced the publication of its second report, Teacher Contracts: Restoring the Balance, Volume II. The new report is described in a ProJo article entitled Report: Teachers’ benefits ‘excessive’: Teacher contracts in Rhode Island focus too much on “excessive adult entitlements,” such as lifetime health benefits, a business-backed education report states. Union…
I don’t have time to research the ins and outs of Rhode Island’s laws dealing with the quality of public education, but it seems to me that the following addition to the section on “intervention and support for failing schools,” introduced in the Senate (PDF) by Senators Ruggerio, Badeau, Ciccone, Lanzi, and Tassoni, would arguably…
In the latest report (available for a fee) of dishonest manipulation of reporting performance results required under No Child Left Behind, we get this report: When the Associated Press reported last week that nearly two million mostly minority children “aren’t counted when it comes to meeting the law’s requirement that schools track how students of…
Andrew has written about state education aid to Rhode Island towns. He has also written how Mayor Cicilline of Providence thinks $188 million or $6,772/student is not enough state aid, aid largely paid for by the rest of us in the state to fund the ongoing non-performance of his city’s schools. The Mayor’s brazen attitude…
Earlier this week, Brown University President Ruth Simmons discussed education in a lecture before the Urban League of Rhode Island. Here is a part of her remarks, as reported by Tom Mooney in the Projo…“How often do you talk to people who just can’t bear the thought that their tax dollars are going to help…
