Google Alert on "No Child Left Behind" for September 2.   more »

Brenda Belton shows us just how easy it is to hire friends and family instead of qualified providers.   more »

"And for the most part, not all, but many of them consider the requests coming from parents and teachers - they think it's a nuisance." Not the best rhetorical strategy for DC Public Schools' new boss.   more »

Here’s where we need to draw the ethical line. It's not the size of the bribe that matters, but breaching the duty of loyalty to students, teachers and taxpayers.   more »

The Baltimore-based investment firm's k-12 specialists have an unusual perspective on Senator Kennedy’s report on the connections between consultants like Edward Kame' ennui and the major publishing firms – one that doesn’t serve the investment community’s need for information and analysis all that well.   more »

Two items in Time magazine’s otherwise bland summary of the issues around NCLB reauthorization deserve a closer look. What is meant by “perverse” and what consequences were "unintended"?   more »

The reason reporters don't understand education research is not so much because education reporters don't take the time to understand - although they don't. It is because education research has not been important to education reporting - in the sense that covering it well has not been important to the sale of newspapers or the field's trade reports.   more »