The Gadfly Daily’s week in review

The Education Gadfly / February 11, 2012

While ESEA waivers grabbed the headlines this week, Fordham bloggers offered up commentary on all of the week’s big education stories. Here’s a recap by the numbers:

• Mike made 3 bold predictions about the fallout from President Obama’s waiver announcement in a Gadfly Weekly editorial.
• Terry described the 5 key factors to Cleveland Mayor Fred Jackson’s plan to turn around the city’s schools on the Ohio Gadfly Daily blog.
• Only 25 percent of teachers described summative assessments as “extremely” or “very” valuable in a recent survey, but on the Common Core Watch blog Kathleen Porter-Magee argues that these tests are a crucial tool for measuring student achievement.
• 40 percent of D.C. public school students attend charter schools, but Adam Emerson warns on the Choice Words blog that increased collaboration between DCPS and charters carries risks.
• On the Board’s Eye View blog, Peter Meyer wonders why Deborah Meier sees fascism in a model of schooling that does a pretty good job educating 32,000 kids.
• Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett proposed raising state K-12 education spending to $5.4 billion this week, but Chris Tessone wrote on the Stretching the School Dollar blog that the Keystone State needs to make lasting changes to its school funding policies.

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