Business Week seems a lot better since Bloomberg took it over. The magazine has done an especially good job in covering privatized education. Here is an excellent example.
Golden, Daniel. 2010. "Teachers' Pest." Bloomberg Businessweek (19-25 July): pp. 58-63 .http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_30/b4188058281758.htm 58: "Starting in 2000, the Gates Foundation spent hundreds of millions of dollars on its first big project, trying to revitalize U.S. high schools by making them smaller, only to discover that student body size has little effect on achievement." 58: "It has since shifted its considerable weight behind an emerging consensus -- shared by U.S. Education Secretary and Gates ally Arne Duncan -- that quality of teaching affects student performance and that increasing achievement is as simple as removing bad teachers, identifying good ones, and rewarding them with more money. On this theory, Gates is investing $290 million over seven years in the Tampa, Memphis, and Pittsburgh school districts as well as a charter school consortium in Los Angeles. The largest chunk of money, $100 million, will go to Tampa's Hillsborough County school district, the eighth-largest in the U.S., with 192,000 students and 15,000 teachers. These carefully selected programs, which will favor or penalize teachers depending on whether students make larger or smaller gains than their test scores in prior years would have predicted, are intended as models that, if proven successful, can be rolled out nationwide." More at: http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/bill-gates-teachers-pest/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
