Last week, Bellwether Education Partners analyst (and Obama administration alumnus) Chad Aldeman pointed out that I’ve changed my views on reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act since 2011. He’s absolutely right. What’s perplexing is why he would find this surprising.
The coarser and cruder Donald Trump becomes, and the more ill-informed on the issues he sounds, the more he coasts in the polls. Apparently, a few of his targets must be regarded as unsympathetically as their defamer.
One of the most hotly debated issues in American education today revolves around low-performing schools and districts: how to define “low-performing,” what to do about them, and who gets to decide.
How do you make sense of a Republican presidential race with 17 candidates running 15 months before the election? It’s a lot like making sense of the Major League Baseball season in August, two months before the World Series. My logic parallels that of former Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda who said: “There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.”
Despite California's roads ranking among the worst in the nation and requiring between $6 billion to $10 billion in additional annual maintenance funding, Democratic legislative leaders and Governor Brown decided against including long-term, sustainable solutions in their negotiated budget this year.
During the recent Hoover Workshop on Totalitarian Regimes, participant Jacob Olidort, who received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University in June and is a fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, used his knowledge of the Middle East and Arabic to inventory Hoover’s Richard Paul Mitchell Collection. The archive—which originated from one of the most well regarded scholars in the field of Middle Eastern Studies—contains writings, newspapers, magazines, journals, books, and other printed matter relating to the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic culture and political movements, and conditions in Islamic countries. Olidort’s inventory will enhance the existing online finding aid for the collection and be of great value to current and future researchers interested in using the collection for their own projects.
Hoover Institution fellow Russell Berman will discuss his Defining Ideas piece, “The Shadow of Yalta” on the nationally syndicated John Batchelor Show.
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli discusses insolvent districts, alleged teacher shortages, NOLA’s ed reforms, and the market’s effect on teacher effectiveness.
Those looking for a marketplace approach to the divisive climate change issue might consider the insights of George P. Shultz, a Republican who served in the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations and was Ronald’s Reagan’s secretary of state for almost seven years.
Stanford experts say that China devalued its currency to help spur exports, growth and employment. It wants its currency to become a pre-eminent one in the global economy.
George Orwell said, “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” If one wants to discover the truth of Orwell's statement, he need only step upon most college campuses.
The widening investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails is becoming more than just a strategy and optics problem; it’s becoming an intraparty establishment problem as well.
As Academia Historica in Taipei owns the archive on the late Republic of China President Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石), the institution is perceived as an important asset for information on the 1937-1945 second Sino-Japan war.
