I received an interesting link about candidates for school board in Palatine District 15. Watch for yourself below and you can see why it so hard to get fiscally responsible candidates elected to school boards....

BAILING THE FAILING Tom McLaughlin Similarities between federal government “helping” the economy and “helping” public education haunt me. Government bails out failing businesses now the same way it’s been bailing out failing students and failing schools. Will Democrat B...

My sentiment toward the stimulus bill has been what I might call optimistically credulous. That is, I'm pretending that the goal here is to actually stimulate the economy. Thus, my reaction to the inclusion (or removal) of sensible public policy proposals has been to ask, "How well does this fit wit...

EDUCATION AND INDOCTRINATION CANNOT CO-EXIST Gabriel Garnica, Esq. As liberals everywhere light cigarettes in the afterglow of their inauguration paradise, sane Americans with queasy stomachs can focus their attention on the many areas where the left’s fingerprints look more like infantile gra...

CWD comments,Clearly, Rhee is trying to sell the teachers a pig in a poke. On the other hand, these are the same teachers who have had union president's steal millions from them and who readily admit that they wouldn't want their children to attend the schools where they teach . . . and are surprise...

Hear hear! There’s an ice fishing tournament in Hell tonight. “Just as attacks on the patriotism of one side or the other of foreign policy debates only raises the level of acrimony and diminishes the substantive discussion, the level of educational policy debate is debased by claims tha...

In last week’s Gadfly, Fordham’s Mike Petrilli looked at the costs of teacher obesity - by most accounts a preventable epidemic - that the public has to bear. It’s an interesting question and not an easy one. Healthcare costs on the public dime raise difficult questions about indiv...

I’m not an anti-union guy; I can even tell you how “Union Maid” is based on “Red Wing,” give alternate lyrics for each and play it on the banjo. I don’t sing very well, though. I’ve mentioned in the past some bits that appeared on Edwize, the UFT’s blo...

There are two warring camps in baseball: those who use statistics and objective data to drive decision-making and performance assessment vs. those who look to romance, nobility, experience, and all things idiosyncratic for both teaching and managing the game. Sound familiar? There’s a website ...

Eduwonkette gives the Moneyball/education links in chronological order - my original entry is here. I’m pleased that the issue is getting some attention. It’s a worthwhile discussion and there are important points on both sides. The UFT’s Leo Casey responded to my post by telling u...