Here’s a vote for turning all of the Ed Sector blogs over to the women of the Ed Sector.
Not the woman in the pictures that leave all their readers clueless. [Is this some sort of post-modern version of visiting the Delphic oracle?]
The ones who write the posts that leave the Ed Sector boys in the dust.
Like Sara Mead, who is one of the few people in the blogosphere — and in education policy circles — who always has interesting and intelligent things to say about gender and the achievement gap.
And Elena Silva, who just did a masterful job of skewering the pretensions of Bush’s DOE with this little musing on one of the four [count 'em: 1, 2, 3, 4] studies on English Language Learning that meet its criteria of “scientific analysis” — a comparative look at the relative efficacy of PBS’ Arthur and Between the Lions shows in communicating English to non-English speaking kindergarten students. Arthur won.
[The truth of the matter was that the PBS' Buster was the hands down winner, but he was disqualified from the running, on the purely scientific criterion that he visited a family with two mothers in Vermont last season, to the horror of Secretary Spellings.]
This is what $25 million of taxpayer money has produced. Checker Finn, call your office.
