Cross-posted at Education Week. I was at a party last night with some friends. One of them, an impressively smart, well-informed woman from Boston wanted to talk education. She was not three sentences into her question when I realized that she, like so many others, was...
Cross-posted at Education Week. I met Rod Allen, a former associate deputy minister in the British Columbia Education Ministry, last year at a meeting of the Global Education Leaders Partnership hosted by our organization and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Rod is now the superintendent...
Cross-posted at Education Week. In case you had not noticed, allow me to inform you of the precipitous decline of the American school publishing industry. When I was in school, there was a great kaleidoscope of textbook publishers from Scholastic to Addison-Wesley, Silver Burdett to McGraw Hill,...
Cross-posted at Education Week. For a great many students in American schools, school begins in elementary school with failure at a walk and ends in high school with failure at a gallop. It starts when they first arrive at the schoolhouse door, already far behind. How can...
Cross-posted at Education Week. My last blog was a brief summary of a paper commissioned by the Government of New South Wales, Australia for use as part of a symposium on Education for a Changing World. In it, I described how artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, natural...
Cross-posted at Education Week. My organization decided a few weeks back that we needed to hire a new professional staff person. We had close to 500 applicants. Inasmuch as the task was to help us communicate information related to the work we do, we gave each...
by Jackie Kraemer This year, British Columbia implemented an innovative new curriculum called Building Students Success for all kindergarten through 9th grade students in the province. The curriculum, developed by educators and based on the latest research and international best practice, is “concept-based and competency-driven.” It...
Cross-posted at Education Week I was in Hong Kong last week visiting some schools, drawn there by Hong Kong's consistently high performance on international comparisons of student performance. My aim in this blog is to briefly describe those schools and then share some reflections on the...
by Marc Tucker I recently interviewed Charles Fadel for this column. Charles is the Founder and Chairman of the Center for Curriculum Design and a visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has studied physics, electrical engineering, and business. Starting his career...
Cross-posted at Education Week This is the third in a series of blogs describing our proposals for states interested in taking advantage of the flexibility provided by the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to build a truly world class education system. In this blog, I...