When my daughters were pre-teens they came home from school one day alarmed. During a lesson on climate change the teacher or some part of the lesson, it was never quite clear, had basically stat...
If A Form Fails In the Forest And No One Hears About It… Imagine for a moment that hackers attacked Harvard’s computer systems, or someone dragged a huge magnet through Cambridge, and suddenl...
ICYMI earlier in the week I wrote about why, despite the stridency about non-profit and for-profit status, tax status actually doesn’t matter a lot in key ways. Last week I took a look at AI an...
A Rising Tide Lifts All Wonks On a new WonkyFolk Jed and I talk with David Griffith from Fordham about their new report on education competition in the nation’s largest school districts. And Da...
Low points for higher education. Via Michael Powell: I had to wonder: What might have transpired had Gee emphasized the moral urgency of creating grand options for working- and middle-class stude...
https://www.eduwonk.com/2023/12/odds-ends-and-fish-higher-ed-pisa-college-board.html
Congrats to my colleagues Amy Chen Kulesa and Alex Spurrier for their winning essay in Fordham’s Wonkaton. Alex and Amy take a measured look at the potential of AI. Not kool aid, and not cold w...
https://www.eduwonk.com/2023/12/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-but-we-do-have-fish.html
This is a long one. Buckle up. But there is fish at the end. Coming attractions: Look for a LinkedIn live on Monday with Andy Jacobs, Christine Pitts, and me discussing the strike in Portland. Li...
Working a lot when you’re young isn’t going to kill you and it’s a great investment. This is not strictly speaking an education or education policy post – but it certainly implicates at l...
https://www.eduwonk.com/2023/10/youre-getting-bad-advice.html
Holland & Knight sponsors a podcast about Washington policy, regulatory and political issues. I sat down with Lauren Maddox to talk education. Lauren’s first question was about the Pan Mass Cha...
The United States Secretary of Education tweeted this the other day: To get right to it: That’s wrong. More importantly it’s also counterproductive if we want to pay teachers more (or get peo...
https://www.eduwonk.com/2023/09/our-dumb-teacher-pay-debate.html