Final Thoughts on Expanding Education Opportunity
I am struck by how many educators and parents are fed up and frustrated with the direction in which we have been headed. Read Full Post >
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November 10, 2012
Time to Put Forward a New Reform Agenda
I don't think we need to produce a manifesto for change, but we do need to begin to outline some key steps that could be taken to move public education in a different direction. Read Full Post >
October 13, 2012
The Politics of Reform in the Presidential Election
The Obama administration is our ally, not our enemy. We must work with them to show that a better approach to improving our schools is possible. Read Full Post >
April 13, 2012
Sending Out an SOS
Can we build a response that doesn't rest on fear, but rather on hope? Read Full Post >
January 31, 2012
Does President Obama Know What Race to the Top Is?
Do you think that President Obama just doesn't understand that Race to the Top has encouraged states to double down on high-stakes testing? Maybe he doesn't realize that the strategies of his administration rely totally on test scores. Read Full Post >
January 17, 2012
Getting Real About Turnarounds
The turnaround approach assumes that it is bad principals and bad teachers who stand in the way of school improvement. Read Full Post >
January 09, 2012
NCLB: The Death Star of American Education
After 10 years of NCLB, we should have seen dramatic progress on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, but we have not. Read Full Post >
October 25, 2011
NCLB: End It, Don't Mend It
Despite the manifest failure of NCLB, the Obama administration proposes not to scrap it, but to offer waivers if states agree to accept the mandates selected by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Read Full Post >
October 18, 2011
If You Believe in Miracles, Don't Read This
But as long as public officials insist on making test scores the measure of teacher quality and school success, then their claims should be closely scrutinized using the metrics that they themselves have made the coin of the realm. Many of the schools that politicians hail as successes have records no different from other schools that the politicians are closing. Read Full Post >
June 21, 2011
Reasons for Hope
Now is a time to speak and act. Now is a time to think about how we will one day be judged. Not by test scores, not by data, but by the consequences of our actions. Read Full Post >
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