Viewpoints

  Remember those ubiquitous “Baby Einstein” videos?  A New York Times article today reports that twelve years since the introduction of the hit product, which netted nearly $200 million a year in revenues, Disney is taking the unu...Read More

According to a report in the New York Times today, “the latest results on the most important nationwide math test show that student achievement grew faster during the years before the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, when states wer...Read More

Interesting research on impact of New York City charter schools on student achievement.  In summary: "On average, a student who attended a charterschool for all of grades kindergarten through eight would close about 86 percent of the 'Scarsdale-Harl...Read More

Interesting paper on performance pay from Portugal…bottom line of the study: “Our results consistently indicate that the increased focus on individual teacher performance caused a significant and sizable relative decline in student achievement, as m...Read More

What is Edward M. Kennedy’s legacy in terms of American public school education? -          In his first year as senator from Massachusetts, was outspoken proponent of the Economic Opportunity Act (1964), which gave birth to Head S...Read More