Blog Rankings
This blog is not yet three months old but I am pleased to report that it is off to a good start. According to Technorati’s rankings, JayPGreene.com is attracting more readers than the American...
View ArticleAFT and UAW – More Alike Than You’d Think
(Guest post by Greg Forster) Lots of people are picking up on the temper tantrum about alleged “demonizing of teachers” begun by a Randi Weingarten speech and continued in Bob Herbert’s column on the...
View ArticleRandi Weingarten Can’t Get No Respect
In what the AFT web site described as “her first major speech since being elected AFT president in July,” Randi Weingarten “decried the widespread scapegoating of teachers and teachers unions for...
View ArticleMore DC Voucher Buzz
Patrick McIlheran at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel asks, “And what happens to results showing school choice works?” His answer: “Well, if it’s in the hands of a federal government hostile to the...
View ArticleCarnival of Education
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Joanne Jacobs has this week’s carnival of education.
View ArticleJoanne Jacobs on Higher Ed
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Joanne Jacobs and the Quick and the Ed posse are asking provocative questions about higher education. A move is afoot to regulate for profit higher education, but the...
View ArticlePolitics and Schools, Part MCCXXIII
(Guest post by Greg Forster) Neal notes the connection between Arne Duncan’s now-infamous embrace of Al Sharpton and the president’s continuing his new tradition of broadcasting a back-to-school...
View ArticleIt Took So Long Because They Were Learning It in the Wrong Style
(Guest post by Greg Forster) I had to laugh when I saw this New York Times story. They’ve discovered that the existence of multiple “learning styles” has no sound basis in empirical evidence: Take the...
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