Cross-posted at Education Week Critics are pointing out that early adopters of the Common Core—Kentucky, New York and others—have had four or five years to implement it and now have very little to show for it. As Tom Loveless, writing in a Brookings Institution publication put...
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...
Cross-posted at Education Week The days have gotten shorter, the nights colder and longer and we once again find ourselves looking ahead to a new year. Before the flame of 2015 is fully extinguished, I wanted to provide readers with a look back on some of...
Cross-posted at Education Week Readers of this blog will know that I also write a regular piece for the Center on International Education Benchmarking's monthly newsletter. After my recent piece on technology in the classroom, my friend Ron Wolk and I carried on a dialogue about...
Cross-posted at Education Week In the more than a quarter of a century that our organization has been researching the world's top-performing education systems, we have yet to see one that lacks a very strong instructional core. Conversely, we rarely see such strong instructional cores in...
Cross-posted at Education Week In several blogs that preceded this one, I have made the case that mandated annual testing of all students in the United States, when coupled with an accountability regime in which the data produced by those tests is used to make important...
Cross-posted at Education Week Commencement speakers typically exhort their captive audience to follow their dream instead of being careerists. Everyone else is telling young people to be practical, forget the liberal arts, pick out a career in a high-demand field and go for it. In an...
by Marc Tucker You’ve never been to Estonia? You owe it to yourself to go. We just returned and the warm glow of the visit has not yet worn off. We cannot wait to go back. What these modest, friendly and highly educated people have pulled...
International Experts On Teacher Quality During his recent benchmarking visit to Estonia, NCEE President Marc Tucker praised the commitment and expertise of current Estonian teachers while warning that an aging teaching force coupled with low salaries and a low level of public regard for teachers is...