Morning Bill: Former Purdue Education Dean Won’t Donate Because of Daniels

Steven Yang / Purdue University

Gov. Mitch Daniels, soon to be Purdue's 12th president.

Purdue’s pick of Daniels costs $1 million gift – “Marilyn Haring, dean of the College of Education from 1991 to 2001, said she was so troubled by Daniels lack of academic background and his policy decisions related to labor and education funding, she decided to remove a bequest in her will for the university.” Lafayette Journal and Courier

Charter schools get loan help – “Per pupil funding that gets redirected to charters is predicated on supporting an education program — teachers, materials equipment and the like. It assumes the buildings are already there, because for public schools they are. Facilities of any kind, when they are built or repaired in public school districts, generally are funded separately, from a different pot of money.” Get On The Bus

Most Americans Believe College Is a Right (So What’s the Hangup in Congress?) – “While knowing that the rate will stay at 3.4 percent for another year is good news, such partisan wrangling over higher education is, according to a recent national poll by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, out of step with what most Americans believe. Carnegie found that a full 76 percent of Americans believe access to higher education should be a right and 67 percent believe that the cost of college is the greatest barrier to that access.” GOOD

Skills-Based Math, Just in Time Learning, and Bad Habits of Mind – “Without delving too far into the math wars, I and others have written that while traditional math may sometimes have  been taught poorly, it also was taught properly.   In fact, a view of the textbooks in use at that time reveal that they provided both procedures and concept.” Education News