Reflecting Hope Weekly Round Up

Ok so this is a little late, but I am hoping to do a weekly round up of blog articles that caught my eye on education that I think are worth others reading.  These were from last week.      

Paradox of the pink slip - Diana Senecahl explores how the Paradox of the Court relates to the school turn around strategy of firing more than 50 percent of a schools staff.  I had never heard of the Paradox of the Court before and found this article interesting.  

 Move Over iPad!  Google Chrome Notebooks are Going to Be the Game Changer in Education  - Lisa Nielsen discusses Google's new laptop program for schools and how it might change the way we do school.  I was not convinced    

On Time Horizons and Education Outcomes -  Jeffrey R. Henig talks about how education policy has lost sight of the long run by focusing too much on short term results.  I think this hits home big time with our year to year performance tests and this idea of value added measurements for teachers. 

Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit -Rick Hess shares the round up from an AEI conference exploring the strengths and weaknesses of federal government involvement in education.  I included this because the conference sounded interesting and I wanted to go explore the resources more. 

Check them out and let me know what you think.  Thanks for reading.