A Bevy of Education News and Policy Blogs

by Clay Burell · 2009-03-26 01:15:00 UTC
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RSS logoLast week I posted a list of read-worthy blogs on tech-focused 21st century learning blogs. I left out Bill Farren's Education for Well-Being, which goes beyond technology to larger issues of education for sustainable living, well-being, and much, much more, and for which I duly kick myself for not including in the original post. Bill's one of the most original and important voices out there, in my book. I hope you'll check him out.

I thought I'd follow up with a list of blogs more focused on policy and current education news that I subscribe to in my RSS reader. Add your suggestions in comments.

Policy and Current Education Events:

Bridging Differences: Hands down, my favorite daily read: "Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch have found themselves at odds on policy over the years, but they share a passion for improving schools. Bridging Differences will offer their insights on what matters most in education."

Dana Goldstein at The American Prospect's TAPPED blog (her personal blog here).

New York blogs: the first-rate Gotham Schools, Edwize, NYC Educator, and NYC Public School Parents.

Voices of Resistance to the Billionaires' Club and NCLB Testocrats: Susan O'Hanion (email subscription only), Gerald Bracey on Huffington Post, Education Policy Blog, Jim Horn's Schools Matter, and the fun satire of Billionaires for Education Reform.

Education Week, including all of its topical blogs: Politics K-12, Teacher Beat, NCLB Act II, Curriculum Matters, On Special Education, and more.

Chicago blogs: Michael Klonsky's Small Talk, Fred Klonsky's Blog (a recent quotable from Fred, on Arlen Specter's re-election hopes: "He's so done you don't need a fork."), Catalyst-Chicago (a great resource for the scoop, not the hype, on Arne Duncan's performance as "CEO" of Chicago Public Schools) Alexander Russo's This Week in Education (recent Russo quotable, on questions for grammatically-challenged Arne Duncan: "Is there anything that we can do to incent you to tell us who your Deputy Secretary is going to be?") - and I really enjoy Russo's teacher guest-blogger John Thompson's regular posts.

California blogs: The Perimeter Primate (Sharon Higgins is a regular guest-blogger here, and her in-depth coverage of the charter take-over of Oakland Public Schools is citizen journalism at its best), Caroline Grannan's SF Education Examiner articles (ditto Caroline for SF, who also guest-blogs here).

ASCD Smart Brief: a good daily round-up of news, often with free access to for-pay content on Education Week.

Mainstream Media: NPR's Education feed, the Washington Post's education articles (also see WaPo education writer Jay Matthews' Class Struggles blog, in which readers get to push back on his pro-KIPP charter reporting), the New York Times' education articles.

Wonk-world: Richard Kahlenberg at The Century Foundation, Eduwonk.

Google Blogsearch RSS Feeds: Linda Darling-Hammond, Arne Duncan.

New to RSS feed-readers? A quick tutorial to set you up with your own customized newspaper:
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