Will San Diego's Public Schools Survive?
It rejected the U.S. Department of Education's demands for competition and accountability, preferring to implement its own community-based, collaborative vision of school reform. Read Full Post >
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November 01, 2011
October 26, 2011
There Are No Quick Fixes
We CANNOT afford the existing gross confusion between achievement and test scores. It has led us to promote the kind of education quick fix no one would propose for its "ruling class." 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 20, 2011
Re-Learning What We 'Know'
Taking children's parents seriously as their child's first teacher, requires collaboration not mandates. 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 >
October 13, 2011
Building Trust Between Schools & Parents
But the harder part is to figure out how to create a relationship built on trust between school people and families—one by one. Most of all it takes a great deal of patience and time. It can't happen in a single year Read Full Post >
October 11, 2011
What Can We Learn From Finland?
Finland rightly deserves attention today as a nation that treats its children as a precious resource and that honors the adults who make education their passion and their career. Read Full Post >
October 04, 2011
Liberty Plaza, Wall Street, & Schools
But, for the moment, my unambivalent "Hurrah!" to the protesters on Wall Street, to Van Jones' effort to mobilize nationally, to SOS (Save Our Schools), and many more. The future looks, at least, interesting. Read Full Post >
September 28, 2011
Forward to the Past
The big idea of the Reformers Ltd. is that we learn best if we feel scared and if we are quickly rewarded or punished. It keeps us on our toes, along with chants and drum beats and ticking clocks. Read Full Post >
September 21, 2011
Reasons Against Chicago's Longer School Day
Emanuel is, I suspect, looking for a fight, showing his toughness, and falling back on rhetoric. Here are eight reasons his plan is more than dumb. Read Full Post >
