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Welcome to "A Quality Education Blog", the blog of the Loyola Institute for Quality and Equity in Education. The Loyola Institute is a community-based research institute committed to pursuing the data necessary to ensure that all of New Orleans' children have access to a high quality public education. Think of this as an open forum in which anyone can communicate his or her ideas about the roles and importance of quality and equity in education. More about us »
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Yes, the IQEE blog has been silent for a little while now. I hope everyone’s holidays went well and that you’re all settling into 2011. One of my biggest professional resolutions is to get back to blogging regularly to keep … Continue reading
As I’ve noted on this blog before, I was born and raised in Baltimore, the city of “The Wire” and John Waters. While I consider New Orleans home — and am proud to do so — I intensely love the … Continue reading
Yet another beautiful morning here in New Orleans, and yet another edition of “What We’re Reading”, our increasingly sporadic digest of local and national education news. So here, this is what we’re reading today:
I was planning on posting a quick “What We’re Reading” to start the week off (and to get back into the groove of maintaining this blog after a few quiet weeks), but I kept returning to a pair of articles … Continue reading
Given that Loyola and Tulane are next door neighbors and operate on the same schedule, it comes as little surprise that both Alex and I were simultaneously swamped with work and removed from the blogosphere. Apologies to you faithful readers … Continue reading
As Alex has already provided today’s education commentary fix, I will switch it up and provide a quick overview of things that have hit my reading radar today. Noteworthy reads can be found by following this jump:
Good morning, New Orleans and others. After a relaxing but all-too-short weekend, here’s what we’re reading: Jay Mathews in the Washington Post writes in an op-ed that, while the system is far from perfect, many teachers actually like Washington D.C.’s … Continue reading