Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Education Enters Into Public Square Limelight

How long will it last? Who knows, especially with healthcare, financial reform, jobs bills, etc taking up so much of the current public discussion. According to my count, the announcement of President Obama's educational blueprint to reshape No Child Left Behind took up headline space for all of 4 hours (tops) at the New York Time website on Monday. But regardless of whether the media and the public ultimately has the interest or the will power to keep a healthy debate going on education (emphasis on healthy), there are some interesting things afoot. I do not have enough time to go into detail with all of them, but here are links of note:

TNR's education symposium, starring Diane Ravitch. Will comment on this as soon as I've waded through the data and better formulated my thoughts.

Broad preliminary sketch of Obama's new education plan. Anybody been able to locate a source with actual details?

Another good education debate, on charter schools.

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