The Department of Education's political leaders have not proved "highly qualified" to manage our emerging market.    more »

A study of southeast Wisconsin offers some useful policy insights for school improvement industry marketeers and advocates.   more »

What Can the School Improvement Industry Offer Teachers?   more »

Released by Representatives Miller, McKeon, Kildee and Castle.   more »

Providers, especially SES providers, looking for challenging school partners....   more »

Recruitment is to afressing the teacher shortfall as adding water is to fixing a leaky bucket.   more »

The optional 15 percent "Early Intervening Services" set-aside in IDEA for "struggling students" just short of special needs is an underappreciated funding stream.   more »

By way of truth in advertising, your editor wrote the first draft of a good part of this report.   more »

Department of Education releases 2007 Title I funding, district by district.   more »

Why Didn't the Industry Stay In With the Outs?   more »

As "Healthy Lifestyles Education," gym becomes a market for school improvement providers.   more »

The programs that should have been eligible for purchase under Reading First - or not.   more »

It's about the Senate, stupid. And what do you know about "real options?"   more »

It may win him something with the Republican right. But what else?    more »

Something beats nothing. So the University of Arizona's anti-privatization Education Policy Research Unit puts out the de facto report of record.   more »

Your editor sees a new timeline for NCLB reauthorization. It may give the school improvement industry the breathing room it needs to survive - if the industry adopts a new strategy.   more »

Re: Cost Analyses of NCLB - Those Completed and Never Done   more »

District reform requires the "Consulting Architect"   more »

School boards and providers: Beware the "one-trick pony"   more »

A London Times story raises just that prospect. What do you know about the common law duty of care?   more »

Baltimore County's Articulated Instruction Model raises the question.   more »

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

The market effect is significant and, in the case of Alabama, easy to see.   more »

The Dialectic (Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis) of School Reform Politics   more »

But quality "assurance" isn't.   more »

Professional Development Reimbursements Have Market Potential   more »

Political risk meets commoditization.   more »

Reading the tea leaves in Buck McKeon's remarks. And what about two dogs that no side of the NCLB II discussion has encouraged to bark?   more »

When the intellectual wing of public education's political right rejects a market-based option, there's a problem.   more »

It's never so black and white. And the details are more interesting than such a portrayal implies.   more »

Congressman Miller bears bad news about NCLB reauthorization.   more »

Setting Standards for the Day Care of School-Age Children   more »

On the whole, not very promising for the industry. Alarming actually, especially to those in the industry who planned on a rosy future.   more »