OK, But WHO IS GOING TO MAKE YOUR SANDWICH THEN? 27 Aug 2013 | 06:51 pm

John Savage: A few months ago I stopped at a Greek fast food restaurant on the way home from work. Standing in line to order, I recognized the young man stuffing pita bread with lamb and vegetables, ...

I Guess There Weren't That Many "Shovel Ready Projects" 26 Aug 2013 | 07:52 pm

Let us recall that Race to the Top was ostensibly a stimulus program. Linda Borg: To date, Rhode Island has spent $44.4 million (of the $75 million grant), of which $21 million was awarded to local ...

Well Put 26 Aug 2013 | 03:51 pm

Carol Burris: And that is why educators across the country are boiling over in anger and resentment. They have become the proverbial scapegoat set out in the desert with the sins of a society in deni...

Getting All the Essentials in Place... 26 Aug 2013 | 02:33 am

OK, I can get to the skatepark from campus now. Note Stirling Castle in the background. I'm feeling like I may have enough mental space freed up to start blogging about the trip so far... We'll see h...

I Thought Common Core Advocates Were Focused on Implementation 24 Aug 2013 | 03:42 am

Alex Costello: The data that the tests provided the district, Johnson said, is “uninterpretable and unusable.” He gave an example: in eighth grade, Rockville Centre students take the algebra Regents ...

Raimondo is the Worst 22 Aug 2013 | 02:21 pm

Bob Plain: If the way Stand for Children is throwing money at local politics sounds a bit like the way the pro-pension cutting political group Engage RI did so here, well that isn’t the ed reform’s g...

The Fate of Knowing 21 Aug 2013 | 04:25 pm

The Problem with Algebra II is Not So Much the "Algebra" as the "II" 21 Aug 2013 | 03:46 pm

One of the strong points of Nicholson Baker's sceptical piece on Algebra's role in the curriculum in Harpers is that he does a good job of consistently referring to a requirement for "Algebra II" as t...

What We're Doing in Scotland 17 Aug 2013 | 04:20 am

Gareth Jones: A research project has been launched to learn more about a Clackmannanshire river. Academics wishing to research the history of the River Devon could benefit from one of four post grad...

Winston Smith is a Pain in the Ass 17 Aug 2013 | 03:57 am

Bruce Sterling: But Snowden sure is a dissident defector, and boy is he ever. Americans don’t even know how to think about characters like Snowden — the American Great and the Good are blundering aro...