Testing 1,2,3: Accountability Run Amok

“April is child abuse prevention month,” proclaims Fritzwire, a no-nonsense  e-bulletin that arrives daily with policy-related updates from the nation’s capitol.
You wouldn’t know it here in New York City.  Recently, I listened to one of the many sad stories circulating, online and off, around the precincts of the public schools, whose students from third through [... click post title to read more ...]

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New York ECE: On the Record and Racing to the Top

Hail, Nicholas Kristof, for moving the “national newspaper of record” toward our team.  It’s about time.  “Occupy the Classroom,”  his paean to early childhood education is, as I write, number six on the New York Times “Most Emailed” list.    How clever of him to transpose the country’s fixation on Wall Street and income inequality into a [... click post title to read more ...]

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