Rhee is right--summer learning is vital - Class Struggle - Jay Mathews on Education I wish the Las Vegas Unified School District would recruit Michele Rhee to be the Superintendent here in Las Vegas. I wouldn't expect a Washington D.C. City Council to support her common sense management. IS THERE ANYONE HOLDING PUBLIC OFFICE ...

... for students when he was running the Chicago schools. He was able to make vital decisions like appointing principals, rather than push papers and give speeches in his new Washington gig." Also from Cato: Too bad Mathews wasn’t willing to go all the way on this. But just for proposing that we put the position of U.S. Secretary of Education out to pasture, he deserves some hearty applause.

Interesting new column here by Jay Mathews. In it, he writes that striving to turn around chronically low-achieving schools is “a noble quest I have long supported. But I have come to wonder if it might be a big waste of time and money. Most efforts to save such places have been failures. Why not just close them down and start fresh? Why kill ourselves ...

Daniel Mathews (Spokane): Lets hear your thoughts on Gonzaga and the WCC. Do you think Gonzaga rebuilds or reloads? Jay Bilas: Reloads. The big men are very good. Robert Sacre will be the ... -up. Perhaps not the great depth and experience of last year, but very, very good. -Jay Bilas chat on ESPN.com You know you've "arrived" when you can ...

Jay Mathews and a colleague at the Post are soliciting suggestions for their lists of the ten best education blogs of 2009. I had the honor of being placed on ... criticism of his regular AP and KIPP fan club postings. So, what might the two of them be looking for in their list of the “best”? Well, Mathews notes that he has a “weak spot for blogs that target me as the spawn of the ...

... current mayor of Sacramento. See In today's WaPost, Jay Mathews, education columnist, nominates Randi Weingarten to ... if Rhee decamps for California. Excerpt: From the pen of Jay Matthews (who will be writing the ICE/TJC campaign lit): ... One commenter was astounded: Are you sure you're feeling ok Mr. Mathews? Because I can't remember reading anything filled with so much tortured logic ...