Mike Petrilli has a piece in the new issue of Education Next that ranks some of the most prominent education policy blogs. The JPGB (that’s Jay P. Greene’s Blog) was ranked 10th according to Technorati’s authority measure, which counts the number of links to a web site in the last 180 days. JPGB came in just behind Flypaper, to which Petrilli contributes and which was started at about the same time as JPGB.
But Education Nextis part of the dead wood media and the numbers are out of date. They’re like so two months ago. Rob Pondiscio over at Core Knowledge has more current numbers and added some other blogs to his list based on what was in his bookmarks. Here is what he found:
Blog Technorati Rank Google Rank
Joanne Jacobs 217 6
Eduwonkette 167 6
Eduwonk 146 7
Campaign K-12 125 6
The Education Wonks 119 6
Flypaper 95 5
Jay P. Greene 93 6
The Quick and the Ed 87 6
Matthew K. Tabor 85 6
Core Knowledge 84 5
This Week in Education 79 5
Edwize 74 6
Intercepts 69 4
Schools Matter 68 5
Bridging Differences 66 6
D-Ed Reckoning 56 5
Edspresso 46 5
NCLB Act II 40 5
Sherman Dorn 39 5
Eduflack 29 5
Swift and Change Able 27 5
Thoughts on Education Policy 25 4
UPDATE: I’ve added the Google Page Rankings, which you can identify for any web site here. Unlike Technorati, which just counts links to a site, Google Page Rank weights links by how many links the other sites receive. This seems like a better approach but unfortunately the Google Page Ranks are only provided on a 1 to 10 scale. Using it, Eduwonk is the king of the education policy blogs, not Eduwonkette.
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