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The Gadfly Daily’s week in review

The Education Gadfly / January 28, 2012

Apple had Fordham’s bloggers all abuzz this week: On Common Core Watch, Kathleen cautioned that expense and questionable durability would keep iPads from replacing textbooks anytime soon, while Chris countered at Stretching the School Dollar that betting against Steve Jobs’ company tends to be a losing proposition. On Flypaper, Checker used Apple’s outsourcing of iPhone production to China to question whether America’s economic future may depend on our schools’ ability to teach hard work and diligence.

Fordham’s newest blogger, Choice Words editor Adam Emerson, argued that participants in the current school choice debate might benefit from a history lesson. Terry wrote on the Ohio Gadfly Daily that Ohio Governor John Kasich could learn a thing or two about school funding from Florida’s Rick Scott. On the national front, Mike warned that while many in Washington praise ESEA flexibility in theory, they are more than a little uncomfortable with increased state autonomy in education.

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