Posts Tagged ‘Education’

U.S. News Participates in Webcast on Online Education Program Rankings

Here’s a copy of the PowerPoint presentation that my colleague Eric Brooks and I delivered on U.S. News‘s upcoming online education project. Also, WCET plans to archive the entire webcast soon. Highlights of the webcast include: U.S. News stressed that at this point in time there is not a pre-determined methodology for doing the online [...]

Are the education reform fault lines shifting?

I enjoy reading the American Enterprise Institutes Rick Hess on education issues, not mainly because we tend to agree more often than not. Rather, I appreciate his challenging insights that so often lie outside conventional wisdom and/or ahead of the curve. One of his latest blog pieces Common Core: Giving Happy Lie to the Reform [...]

School grades: Collier, Lee get ‘A’s’ from state education

The Collier and Lee County School Districts continue to perform at the top of the class. Both districts received an A grade from the Florida Department of Education, according to school grades released for elementary and middle schools Friday. High school grades are still pending, as the state decided last fall to change the way [...]