At first look, I thought the headline on CNN’s weekend homepage was a wry joke accidentally lifted by a sleeper editor from a satirical outlet like The Onion. It read: “Cash-strapped schools spend millions on solar,” with the subtitle “A … read more
Over on his Ed Week blog, Rick Hess unveiled the first annual Public Presence metric for university-based education scholars, an initial attempt to gauge a scholar’s influence on education policy discussions in the public square. To readers of the Enterprise … read more
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has touted education as “the civil rights issue of our generation.” But the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has recently been at loggerheads with the Obama administration on several key school … read more
There are many troubling things about the round-two winners of Race to the Top (RTT), the federal government’s $4.35 billion state competition to incentivize education reform. This includes the fact that education reform lightweights Ohio and Hawaii won while reform … read more
