Cross-posted on Education Week Notwithstanding the last-ditch street blockades erected by the naysayers, it seems more likely with the passage of each day that most American states will stick by their commitments to implement the Common Core State Standards. But what does it mean to "implement...
Cross-posted on Education Week On Saturday, May 4 the New York Times published a column by Charles Blow that you ought to read. Blow is one of my favorite columnists and this is one of his best columns, straight from the heart, about his mom, a...
Cross-posted on Education Week Over the last couple of weeks, the question as to what rate of interest college students will pay on their loans leaped to the front pages of our vanishing newspapers. Both parties have agreed that the rates should stay where they are, instead...
Cross-posted on Education Week Over the last thirty years, the United States has seen the status of its education system relative to that of other industrial nations sink from the top to the middle. In the same period, Finland's system has risen from obscurity to first...
Cross-posted on Education Week Jay Greene, a professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas and fellow at the George W. Bush Institute, recently reviewed my latest book, Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems, in Education Next. In...
Cross-posted on Education Week Do you remember the 1980s, when the United States spawned a whole new breed of education governors, people like Bill Clinton, Lamar Alexander, Jim Hunt, Tom Kean, Terry Branstad and Richard Riley? These men made education the heart and soul of their...
Cross-posted on Education Week In studying the world's top-performing education systems, I have had the privilege of meeting some of the leading international experts in standards, curriculum development, assessments, and teacher practices. These conversations are often the thread that binds all of the data together to...
Cross-posted on Education Week The Council on Foreign Relations issued a report on American education last week that got a big play in the press. In case you missed it, "U.S. Education Reform and National Security" does just what you thought it might--it charges that the sorry state...
Cross-posted on Education Week Last week, I attended the Second International Summit on the Teaching Profession in New York City. Like the first, this is a meeting of education ministers and teachers' union heads from countries around the world, most of which outperform the United States. They've been...
Cross-posted on Education Week Most everyone knows now that the cost of the U.S. education is at the top of the charts but its students' performance is only average, when compared to the top-performing countries. The question is why that is so. There are, of course, many...