by David Safier The above-the-fold photo on the front of today's NY Times' SundayStyles section shows 4 students from Rincon High under the headline, Can a Boy Wear a Skirt to School? None of the students, male or female, appear to be wearing skirts, but the caption says that Rincon High is a place … Read more
by David Safier On Imagine School's website, you can read a list of the corporation's Six Measures of Excellence. Most of them are the usual stuff — values, achievement, character development — but one, as the old Sesame Street song says, is not like the others. The final sign of excellence is the development of … Read more
by David Safier Education scandal rags Education Week is abuzz with vaguely interested in the shocking not-terribly-exciting news that Washington D.C. Superintendent Michelle Rhee is engaged to former basketball star, former charter school operator and current Sacramento mayor, Kevin Johnson. They've been carrying on a bi-coastal romance for some time. Johnson says it will be … Read more
by David Safier Stop the presses, and stop bad mouthing public schools. Our graduates are so well trained, productivity just jumped almost 10%! What's that? You say there's no direct connection between schooling and productivity? Then why was everyone trashing me and my fellow teachers in the 80s when productivity was down? If it was … Read more
by David SafierI've been out of town, so I haven't written about the second and third installments of the Fort Wayne, Indiana, Journal Gazette's series on Imagine Schools: Education Inc. This is about Part II, It's 'Our school, not theirs,' which is a doozy. The glue in this installment is the email Imagine CEO Dennis … Read more