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Racial Achievement Gaps and Within-District Funding Inequity
I’ve written on this blog on a number of occasions, comments regarding the relative significance of within versus between district funding inequities. For example, I’ve explained (in response to an...
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CAP’s Title I Myth
I just read a copy of “Spoonful of Sugar” from Center for American Progress in which they again propose fixes to Title I funding, which I have pointed out in the past are based on misguided assumptions...
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Ed Trust Getting Loopy Again
Education Trust has released another BIG statement about an issue that I would argue is a minor distraction – at best. At worst, this issue becomes a major policy distraction, diverting attention from...
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Research, Schmresearch – CAP’s misguided analysis… AGAIN!
Center for American Progress has just released a new report titled Comparable, Schmomperable which argues that within-district disparities are the major equity problem of the day. As I have noted...
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NCTQ: We’re sure it will work! Even if research says it doesn’t!
Last spring, I had the pleasure of presenting on teacher labor market research in the same conference session in which a very interesting paper on mutual consent teacher contract changes was also...
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If it doesn’t work, don’t do it! CAP’s ROI
The Center for American Progress released its new Return on Investment (ROI) Index for K-12 public school districts of greater than 250 students this week. I should note in advance that I had the...
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School Funding Equity Smokescreens: A note to the Equity Commission
In this blog post, I summarize a number of issues I’ve addressed in the past. In my previous post, I discussed general reformy myths about school spending. In this post, I address smokescreens commonly...
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More expensive than what? A quick comment on CAP’s CSR report
The Center for American Progress today release a report on class size reduction authored by Matthew Chingos, who has conducted a handful of recent interesting studies on the topic....
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Resource Deprivation in High Need Districts? (& CAP’s goofy ROI)
This post provides a follow-up on two seemingly unrelated topics, both of which can be traced back to the Center for American Progress. First, there was that wonderful little Return on Investment...
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Inexcusable Inequalities! This is NOT the post funding equity era!
I’ve heard it over and over again from reformy pundits. Funding equity? Been there done that. It doesn’t make a damn bit of difference. It’s all about teacher quality! (which of course has little or...
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