The Letter From: What is "Capacity"? (III): In Districts and Schools Educators Can Bypass the Middle Men for Teaching Content? The Letter From: What is "Capacity"? (II): In Public Education Friday Guest Column: Encouraging Customers to Spread the Word The Letter From: What is "Capacity"? (I) The Letter From: The Most Important Issue in Federal Education Policy Presidential Candidates Don’t Discuss (III) The Letter From: The Most Important Issue in Federal Education Policy Presidential Candidates Don’t Discuss (Between II and III) Friday Guest Column: Ideablob.com offers micro-capital prize for self-starting edupreneurs The Letter From: The Most Important Issue in Federal Education Policy Presidential Candidates Don’t Discuss (II) Edbizbuzz Discloses Involvement in Presidential Campaign School Improvement RFP of the Week (2): How Much Sole-Source Business Should ED Do With CCSSO? School Improvement RFP of the Week (1): To Attract and Keep Teachers, Improve Compensation Without Increasing Labor Costs Friday Guest Column: NW Education Cluster SY 2008 Goals and Progress The Letter From: The Most Important Issue in Federal Education Policy Presidential Candidates Don’t Discuss (I) School Improvement RFP of the Week (2): The Next Wave of E-Rate Business is VOIP School Improvement RFP of the Week (1): Design/Build a User Friendly Decision Support System for Nebraska 5 From 1: Federal Policy and Politics Friday Guest Column: One Teacher's Hopes for NCLB II The Letter From: "In short, I see no problem with research INITIALLY becoming public with little or no review.” (II) The Letter From: "In short, I see no problem with research becoming public with little or no review.” (Between I and II) School Improvement RFP of the Week (2): Who Should Drive School Safety? Educators, Police, or FEMA? School Improvement RFP of the Week (1): Preschool Services for Los Angeles and Adjacent Counties 5 From 1: Research Friday Guest Column: Man Bites Dog? Educators Use Technology to Improve Writing The Letter From: "In short, I see no problem with research becoming public with little or no review.” (I) School Improvement RFP of the Week (2): Retiree Leaseback - A Back Door to Outsourcing the Teaching Force School Improvement RFP of the Week (1): SES, meet 21st CCLC 5 From 1: Providers The Letter From: March 29, 2004 Asks if There is a School Improvement Industry School Improvement RFP of the Week (2): Third Party Evaluation is Becoming a Distinct Market Segment School Improvement RFP of the Week (1): Assessing Maryland's Tests Against Maryland's Standards 5 From 1: State Education Policy Organizations Friday Guest Column: Searching for the End to Plagiarism The Letter From: The School Improvement Industry’s Demand Side for SYs 2009 and 2010 School Improvement RFP of the Week (2): The State of School District Procurement School Improvement RFP of the Week (1): Reading First Center Teaches Us About Conflicts of Interest 5 From 1: Federal Politics and Policy The Letter From: March 1, 2004 on Funding NCLB 5 From 1: Research and Evaluation 5 From 1: Providers School Improvement RFP of the Week (2): Do You Offer California a Strategy from Column A, B or C? School Improvement RFP of the Week (1): Buld a Turnkey Online Platform for Indiana Friday Guest Column: Don’t Rob “Poor” Peter to Pay “Poor” Paul The Letter From: Political Risk, Political Action (April 5, 2004) School Improvement RFP of the Week (2): Expert Systems for High School Students’ Career Guidance School Improvement RFP of the Week (1): Fans of Clayton Christensen Take Note Friday Guest Column: Agreeing to Duck the Discussion about Profit Uberblogger Russo Asks About "Group Genius" in School Reform The Letter From: Reflections on My First BlogYear School Improvement RFP of the Week: Is There a Business in Schoolyard Habitats? The Temptation of McCarthyism - On the Left Rhee-Visiting the District of Columbia Public Schools (IV) Friday Guest Column: Local DC Activists Protest Chancellor's Choice of Independent Evaluators To City Council Rhee-Visiting the District of Columbia Public Schools (III) Rhee-Visiting the District of Columbia Public Schools (II) Rhee-Visiting the District of Columbia Public Schools (I) School Improvement of RFP of the Week (2): First Steps To a Federal Infrastructure for K-12 Online? School Improvement RFP of the Week (I): Can We Expect Independent Program Evaluation if It’s Not Put Out to Bid? The Ayers Affair (VI): What About Petrilli's Memo? The Ayers Affair (V): Petrilli v. Eduwonkette Making the Most of Industry Awards The Ayers Affair (IV): In The Interest of Full Disclosure (Cont.) The Ayers Affair (IV): In the Interest of Full Disclosure The Ayers Affair (III): Right v. Left The Ayers Affair (II): The Education Angle The Ayers Affair (I): Introduction School Improvement RFP of the Week (2) School Improvement RFP of the Week (1) Reply to Ravitch on McCarthyism in the K-12 Debate Reply to Mike Petrilli on McCarthyism in the K-12 Debate Franchising for Charter School Scale Friday Guest Column: Mission Smarts on Value Added Models and the Fear of Data Education as Politics More than Policy: The Ayers Affair The Letter From: A Detailed Statutory Analysis of "based on" in Reading First (I) Help D-Ed Reckoning and Edbizbuzz De/Re-Construct NCLB's SBRR Provisions School Improvement RFP of the Week (2) School Improvement RFP of the Week (1) Friday Guest Column: Is Education Research on the Leading Edge of School Improvement? Comprehensive Emergency Planning for Public Schools (IV): Operational Requirements Reading First Interim Report Doesn’t Pass the “So What? Test” Comprehensive Emergency Planning for Public Schools (III): A Threat Matrix School Improvement RFP of the Week Conflating Teacher Incompetence and Redundancy: Management Mistake and/or Ploy? The Letter From: Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Comprehensive Emergency Planning for Public Schools (II): The Evolving Challenge of In Loco Parentis Comprehensive Emergency Planning for Public Schools (I): Introduction School Improvement RFP of the Week The Northwest Education Cluster: A Continuing Saga Kudos to the Education Industry Association The Letter From: Information Systems, Accountability and Adaptive Management School Improvement RFP of the Week (2) School Improvement RFP of the Week (1) Friday Guest Column: Not Left v. Right, But "Clued in" v. "Clueless" The Letter From: On Teacher Accountability School Improvement RFP(s) of the Week Why Legally Recognized Professionalism is Necessary to Reasonable Teacher Accountability One K-12 Investment Banker's Prognosis: Five Reasons to Prepare for Generation Z! Teaching Should Be a Legally-Recognized Profession, But It's Not The Letter From: My Market Exemplars School Improvement RFP of the Week My E-Mail Exchange With "Socrates" on CMOs and the CMO Study Friday Guest Column: The Rise of Virtual College Fairs The Letter From: Market Critic or Critical Friend? A Belated Friday Guest Column - Redefining Tech Support School Improvement RFP of the Week My E-Mail Exchange With Kevin Carey on Section 9401 and Differentiated Accountability In case you wonder what I wrote about Section 9401 in April 2005 Differentiated Accountability Pilot: Policy-Free Lawmaking, Yes. Lawless Policymaking, No. On the Department of Education’s Differentiated Accountability Pilot The Letter From: Getting SES Providers Past the Tough Times Ahead School Improvement RFP of the Week (2) School Improvement RFP of the Week (1) The Letter From: Why the Tough Times Ahead for SES Providers? A Belated Friday Guest Column - Is SES Exec Carter Sincere or "Shocked, Shocked"? School Improvement RFP of the Week (2) School Improvement RFP of the Week (1) Sidebar on Social Entrepreneurship: Has TEP Made A Breakthrough in Charter Finance or Are They the Movement's Realians? The Letter From: After SBR, RTI? Deconstructing a Social Keiretsu (V): Publishing Power, Persuasion and Propaganda Fordham Revives Reading First Debate, SFA's Slavin Replies (Stern Responds) School Improvement RFP of the Week Sidebar on a Social Keiretsu: NY Times Mag Interviews the New Philanthropy Friday Guest Column: SBR and RB – Measures of Efficacy or Red Herring? The Letter From... SBR is Really RB, and RB is Really SBR: Do You Want Me to Apply SBR to Your Program? Following Up on John Doerr: The Private Sector in Space School Improvement RFP of the Week Deconstructing a Social Keiretsu (IV): You Can Learn a Lot at Conferences The Education Industry Association’s Annual Washington Meeting (II) The Education Industry Association’s Annual Washington Meeting (I) Deconstructing a Social Keiretsu (III): Money Talks, But What Does it Say? School Improvement RFP of the Week Watching John Doerr at NGA: Why School Improvement Providers Should Too Friday Guest Column: Pitching a Story Deconstructing a Social Keiretsu in Public Education (II): Board of Directors Deconstructing a "Social Keiretsu" in Public Education Reform Social Entrepreneurship: Summing Up CEO Perspective: MetLife's Homework Survey The Ongoing Discussion of an Education Reform Keiretsu School Improvement RFP of the Week Reflections on the Edbizbuzz-Eduwonk Exchange Edbizbuzz-Eduwonk Exchange on Washington's Like-Minded, Overlapping Education Policy Groups Get Into the Cross-Blog Debate on Washington's Education Think Tank Networks Friday Guest Column: What's "Good" About Meeting Student Achievement Standards? 1996: Entrepreneurship Reaches a Critical Mass in Public Education (II) 1996: Entrepreneurship Reaches a Critical Mass in Public Education (I) What Happened in Public Education BSE (Before Social Entrepreneurship)? School Improvement RFP of the Week (2) School Improvement RFP of the Week (1) Social Entrepreneurship: First, Define "Entrepreneur" Uberblogger Russo Asks: What is Social Entrepreneurship in Public Education? Who is a Social Entrepreneur? Eduventures' Sell Off Suggests the End of an Era Friday Guest Column: A Real "Year of Transformation?" Education Think Tanks Require a Better Class of Customer The Letter From: Management Consulting Firms are the Real Education “Think Tanks” Not "Think Tanks", But "Policy Marketing Shops" School Improvement RFP of the Week Real Think Tanks Work for an Agency that Pays Their Bills Uberblogger Alexander Russo asks: What is the role, impact or benefit of education think tanks? Virtual Education: The Real Issues The Letter From: Where Provider Accountability Went Wrong The State of the Union Speech - Why I'm Not Writing About NCLB II School Improvement RFP of the Week (2) School Improvement RFP of the Week (1) I Try My Hand at Marketing Copy Does Philanthropy Sink Contrary Research Too? Friday Guest Column: Consider the Northwest Education Cluster The Letter From: Provider Accountability is Arbitrary and Capricious (II) The Letter From: Provider Accountability is Arbitrary and Capricious (I) School Improvement RFP of the Week (2) School Improvement RFP of the Week (1) Market Concepts Haven't Made Much of an Inroad Friday Guest Column: Making Redundancy a Value of Planning in Public Education The Letter From: What is Accountability in the Public Education Market? Friday Guest Column: Notes From The K12 Supplemental Market School Improvement RFP of the Week Stuff Happens What is "A Liberal"? An Addendum to "Why Market-Based Reforms Don’t": What About Funding? The Letter From: Why Market-Based Reforms Don't School Improvement RFP of the Week The "Program Evaluation" Bar - Why Just for SES Providers? NCLB II: The Liberal's Dilemma Making Sense of School Improvement Program Evaluations (II): The Case of TEEM The Letter From: Three "E's" In The School Improvement Industry's Year Ahead School Improvement RFP of the Week (2) School Improvement of RFP of the Week (1) Friday Guest Column: Hey Buddy…Can You Spare A Teacher with a Master’s Degree? The Letter From: Staying In With the Outs K-12Lead of the Week It's Not Over 'Til...: Making Sense of the Districts New Central Office Firings Law It's Not Over 'Til...: The Continuing Saga of Plans to Fire DC’s Central Office Making Sense of School Improvement Program Evaluations: The Case of TEEM The Letter From: Industry Fragmentation (III): Coping Strategies K-12Lead of the Week In Case You’ve Never Seen a “Wired” RFP In Case You Are Following The Debate Here Over DC School Reform Friday Guest Column: Virtual EMO K-12's IPO - Shades of Investors' Experience with 'Real" EMO Edison? Why DC Mayor Fenty's and Chancellor Rhee’s Approach Schools Reorganization Matters to the School Improvement Providers The Letter From: Industry Fragmentation (II): Consolidation Strategies K-12Lead of the Week (2) K-12Lead of the Week (1) Firing the District of Columbia's Central Office - Or Turning it Into a Political Fiefdom? What, Exactly, Fenty and Rhee are Proposing to Do With Central Office Employees Friday Guest Column: Ethics in Supplementary Educational Services Marketing Digging a Deeper Hole: School Restructuring Isn't Working in Maryland The Letter From: Industry Fragmentation (I): A Function of Emergence or Structure? K-12Lead of the Week (2) K-12Lead of the Week (1) Random Research Question Why I'm a Critic of DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee Friday Guest Column: An Indian Perspective on Outsourced, Offshore Tutoring Walking the Talk on the Right Way to Remove the Wrong Staff Can A Change Strategy Alienate Every Stakeholder, Reduce the Chance for Quick Wins in Student Performance, But Still Succeed? The Letter From: What I Learned at the Signal Hill Education Preview Investor Conference K-12Lead of the Week (2) K-12Lead of the Week (1) Let the What Works Clearinghouse Know What's Important Friday Guest Column: Building Your Online Newsroom Washington State Doesn't Have EMOs or CMOs, It has VMOs The Letter From: “What’s a CODiE and How Do I Get One” (and What Does it Tell Buyers)? K-12Lead of the Week DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee: Quo Vadis? Statistics and the Education Wars Public Education's Business Ethics Catching Up to Publicly-Held Firms Friday Guest Column: Successful Show Floor Meetings Should DC Schools Chancellor Rhee Hire Friends or Put Work Out to Bid? The Letter From: Competing with the Publishers - Lessons Learned from American Gangster K-12Lead of the Week (2) K-12Lead of the Week (1) What Indicates Quality? What Demonstrates Accountability? Nonprofits Don't Like to Discuss Their Mistakes Either Friday Guest Column: Reaching the Media Business Blogs: Empirical Education FreeReading.net: Wireless Generation Adopts an Open-Source Strategy This Week's Podcast: What To Do With a Two-Year Reprieve on NCLB II? Re: Rhee This Blog: Lessons Learned = Mistakes Made K-12Lead of the Week When You are Wrong.... NCLB II's Delay Should Not be a Surprise Education Blogs and the School Improvement Market The Charter Idea in Adolescence Friday Guest Column: Writing the New Press Release The Problem With General Officers as Superintendents So What If Charter Competition Has a Negative Impact on Student Achievement in Traditional Public Schools? This Week's Podcast: S. 2117 Incentivizes a School Improvement Industry K-12Lead of the Week Wireless Generation's Berger and Stevenson on Hurdles Facing "Real" - Make that "Classic" - Education Entrepreneurs The Seamy Side of School Purchasing - and Superintendent Power Education Plaza Could Be the Virtual Marketplace for Public Education What Angel Learning's Deal With Harcourt Illustrates About k-12 Online Learning This Week's Podacast: Real School Improvement Providers Back S. 2118 K-12Lead of the Week Do We Have the Capacity to Achieve NCLB's 100/2014 Goal? Does a Lack of Political Will Make NCLB's "100/2014" Impossible? What DeVry's Entry into Online High Schools Means for Virtual EMO K12 What the School Improvement Industry Ought to be Saying About "100/2014" and the "Impossibility Argument" Should/Does the School Improvement Industry Have Anything to Say About 100% Proficiency by 2014? This Week's Podcast: Why School Improvement Marketing Reps Need a Bit of the Eduwonk K-12Lead of the Week District (De/Re)Centralization Influences the School Improvement Industry Don't Buy the "Emergency Powers" Argument for the District of Columbia Public Schools The Central Office (V): Doing Things Wrong or Doing the Wrong Things? The Central Office (IV): Why Schools Don’t Get Support? This Week's Podcast: Can One Hate the Central Office Yet Love the CMO? The Central Office (III): A Source of Money for the Classroom? K-12Lead of the Week The Central Office (II): Dysfunctionality's Cause or Symptom? The School Improvement Market Beyond Education Agencies - Feds The Central Office (I): School Reform's Scapegoat The School Improvement Market Beyond Education Agencies - States And Another Thing (About Rhee) K-12's Public Education Market Extends Beyond "Education" Agencies Michelle Rhee: What Kind of a Leader? This Week's Podcast: Miller-McKeon's CSR Program Isn't CSR Ravitch is Wrong K-12Lead of the Week Following For-Profit Providers (IV): Industry Segments Following For-Profit Providers (III): Individual Firms Following For-Profit Providers (II): The Big Picture Following For-Profit Providers (I) This Week's Podcast: Why Bar For-Profits From School Improvement? K-12Lead of the Week (2) K-12Lead of the Week (1) Experience With Practical Evaluation (III): Today Experience With Practical Evaluation (II): NAS, RAND and Districts Experience With “Practical Evaluation”(I) Thank NCLB I for the (Interrupted?) Birth of Practical Evaluation This Week's Podcast: After Bush, a Return to Party Factionalism on Federal Education Policy K-12Lead of the Week When it Comes to Federal Education Policy, Fred Thompson Probably Speaks for the Republican Party The Society for Research on Education Effectiveness: What Direction? Where Edbizbuzz is Coming From (I): Teachers “Take Aways” from Two Months of What Works Clearinghouse Reviews A Busy Summer for Investment Bankers and Lawyers Is Green Dot A Different Kind of CMO? This Week's Podcast: Who Counts in NCLB Reauthorization? K-12Lead of the Week (2) K-12Lead of the Week (1) Welcome to edbizbuzz
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