David Safier by David Safier The future of data mining student information has arrived. A nonprofit, inBloom, funded mainly by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with some help from the Carnegie Corporation, has created a online database containing detailed information about students culled from school records. The infrastructure to share the information was created by a … Read more
by David Safier A NOT-THAT-JOHN-TIERNY NOTE: Google tells me there are three prominent John Tierney's: the U.S. Rep. from Massachusetts, John M. Tierney, who writes for the NY Times and John T. Tierney, who writes for the Atlantic. This is about the Atlantic writer. A just-out article from the Atlantic: The Coming Revolution in Public … Read more
by David Safier A new book and educational campaign, Closing the Opportunity Gap, is being launched today. One of the book's 21 authors is Linda Darling-Hammond, Obama's education advisor during his 2008 campaign and a possible choice as his Ed Secretary. Obama made a serious blunder when he went with Arne Duncan instead. From the … Read more
by David Safier "The nation will not stand for airport delays!" Congress yells, and the Obama administration considers ways to get furloughed air traffic controllers back on the job. After all, important people — including Congressional frequent fliers who spend 3 or 4 days in D.C., then wing their way homeward for the long weekend … Read more
by David Safier The whole country is on edge about violence in schools these days. So when Yuma Republican Senator Don Shooter barged into a charter school to dress down his grandson's teacher, was told by an employee at the front desk he had to wait because the teacher was in class, disregarded the employee, … Read more