Monday, January 4, 2010

Holiday blogging review

First off, now that we at the Institute have caught up with our own holiday “business” a bit, we hope all our readers had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Along those lines, we know many of you were involved with family and didn’t have time to read our blogs from around December 18th to the end of the year.

So, in honor of everyone’s ever more constricted time, here is a brief listing of our blog items from that period organized by subject. You can click on the title to go right to the article.


*Graduation, graduation rate reporting and related issues

More on those dubious graduation rate statistics

Educators fearful about honest graduation rates

The door to a decent life

One out of five kids not on track with peers


*Charter schools/school choice

U.S. charter schools at 5,000 and growing

Mississippi turning again to charter schools?

Charter schools in Texas grow in popularity

More on Texas Charters

Florida's charters perform a lot like Texas'

Quote of the day: Parental (school) choice needed

Charter schools not part of Ky.'s Race to Top

College prep academy earns the title

Oakland charter is a federal Blue Ribbon School!

Connecticut charter school cleans up state rankings

Charters aren’t just for inner city locations


*On Teaching and Teachers

Teach for America working in Tennessee

Prichard brings board of education chair’s frustration to mind


*Spending your tax dollars

Getting realistic about KEES scholarships

Politicians' pensions

Quote of the day: Try this on, Frankfort

Government and the gallows: History repeats itself, again

Bills would place state spending online


*Your right to know

Superintendent evaluations shouldn’t be hidden from the people


*Dubious evaluations of test results

Is the school scoring deception expanding?

Would you call this “Substantial” progress?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.