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Brookings, Ed Media, and Missed Opps
They’re back! The good folks over at Brookings Institution have returned with their third study on the United States and how it covers education issues in the media. If you’ll recall, in 2009 we...
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College Print Isn’t Dead Yet
I’m not so far removed from my time at the alma mater that I can’t remember the highs and lows of college textbooks. The excitement of the book list for new classes. The dilemma of whether to buy new...
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PDK, We Have a Problem
It is that time of year again, time for the annual PDK/Gallup Poll on America’s thoughts about public education in our great nation. And once again, the American people have demonstrated a clear...
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Education: At Least We Aren’t the Oil Industry?
We regularly hear about what a noble profession education is. We all can tell stories of those teachers who inspired us and those educators who placed us on the the paths of success. We talk about...
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High Stakes? We Laugh at High Stakes
Despite the tall tales told by some about parents opting their children out of standardized tests en masse and folks marching by the millions against “high-stakes tests,” it appears that the average...
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Parent Survey (or Statistics are Dangerous)
We began the week reflecting on an AP poll on parent sentiments about public education. As we roll into hump day, we now have the 2013 edition of the Gallup/PDK poll of “what Americans said about the...
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Is Education a “Top” U.S. Issue?
Today, Gallup came out with its latest public opinion poll on the top problems in the United States. It should come as no surprise that dissatisfaction with government was at the top of the list....
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The New PDK Survey Is Here, The New PDK Survey Is Here
In the immortal words of Steve Martin from the movie, The Jerk, “The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!” Only instead of talking the latest white and yellow pages, where the...
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How About Those Edu-Elections?
If anything, yesterday’s midterm elections were entertaining. We saw incumbents defeated. We saw incumbents previously left for dead winning big. We saw darkhorses win in the end. We races long written...
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A Failure to CCSS Communicate?
The Eduflack family lives in a PARCC state. For months, we have heard from our school district about preparing for the upcoming PARCC assessment. This has been a particularly “interesting” time for our...
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Think Education is a 2016 Campaign Issue? Think Again.
Every election season, the same debate seems to happen in edu-circles. We discuss how important education issues are in this particular election. Such talk often will refer to a recent Gallup poll that...
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The New PDK Poll is Here, the New #PDKPoll is Here!
Last week, the good folks at PDK released the results of the 48th Annual PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools. So what do we think? The most interesting number each year is how...
View ArticleTrump’s Higher Ed State of the Union
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We all know that the President of the United States rarely uses the State of the Union to focus on education issues. For every year that George W. Bush sought to ensure No Child Left...
View ArticleMonolos Don’t Guarantee Political (or Education) Success
Ravitch and the disciples of Ravitch are quick to condemn Teach For America (TFA). TFA is portrayed as a band of dilettantes, individuals of privilege who are seeking to inject themselves in to the...
View Article“News” Overload Has Left Us Numb
We’ve gone from humble-bragging about our kids and sharing photos of our food to using every waking moment of every day sharing every tweet, every slam, every late night comic diatribe, every...
View ArticleIt’s Historic!
Apologies for this site being relatively silent recently. Dear ol’ Eduflack has been hard at work on a major effort focused on the teaching and learning of American history. The full announcement from...
View ArticleNo, We Don’t Know Much About History
We often hear that kids today just don’t understand American history. But it seems adults in the United States don’t fare better. Earlier this month, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (where dear ol’...
View ArticleHow Important, Exactly, Is Learning Today?
For weeks now, we’ve seen experts declare “victory” when it comes to virtual education in the time of Coronavirus. Voice after voice has taken to social media claiming to have solved the puzzle and...
View ArticleNo, Public Education is Not Equal
A recent survey has provided yet another “duh” moment, as the majority of Americans say the know public education is “unequal” in the United States. Yes, we know not all children have access to a...
View ArticleHistory Matters, We Think
“A large majority (75%) agree that a strong understanding of U.S. history is needed for successful citizenship, yet the same survey finds that only 43% say today’s high school graduates possess this...
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