Cross-posted from Education Week Linda Darling-Hammond, John Jackson and I are the co-authors of a commentary column that was published this week in Education Week. It focuses on the one thing that the two political parties appear to agree on in their proposals to reauthorize No...
Cross-posted from Education Week Does it make sense to say that the state will set the standards and the assessments, but leave the decisions about curriculum and instruction up to schools and teachers? I asked this question of Jim Pellegrino, Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Psychology at...
Cross-posted from Education Week I recently finished rereading The Race Between Education and Technology, by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, two Harvard economists. In it, Goldin and Katz describe how American investments in the skills and knowledge of our people contributed, stage-by-stage, to the ability of...
Cross-posted from Education Week Bob Linn is often described as the dean of American testing experts. Howard Everson, long the Vice-President for Research at the College Board, is one of the nation's top psychometricians. I asked the two of them to draw on their nearly half...
Cross-posted from Education Week David Driscoll casts a long shadow. It was he who was at the helm in Massachusetts, as Commissioner of Education, when that state took the steps that ultimately led it to performance by some measures equal to that of the best-performing countries...
Cross-posted from Education Week Jobs for the Future Vice President and Senior Advisor Nancy Hoffman's recent book, Schooling in the Workplace, describes six national vocational education systems. But it does not include Finland, though the quality of Finland's compulsory schools is now legendary. Hoffman was curious—did...
Cross-posted from Education Week David Oh walked into my office yesterday. Oh is a city councilman from Philadelphia. I listened, fascinated and horrified, as he told a gripping story of his city. Nothing in his story should have surprised me, but this remarkable man has an...
Cross-posted from Education Week It's funny how things work. For some people in this country, the idea of the Common Core State Standards—national standards for student achievement—was more than they could bear, an affront to their sense of the right relationship between government and its people. But...
Cross-posted from Education Week In my last blog, I shared a note I had written to Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at the University of London's Institute of Education where he recently completed a term as the Institute's Deputy Director. In this one, I...
Cross-posted from Education Week What follows is a note I recently wrote to Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at the University of London's Institute of Education where he recently completed a term as the Institute's Deputy Director. In my next blog, I will share...