Tucker’s Blogs: Archives
May 2014
Unacceptable Options for Our Most Vulnerable Students, May 27, 2014
Who Gets to Write the History of Teacher Quality?, May 20, 2014
Weakening the State Education Agency: A Manual, May 12, 2014
April 2014
The Federal Role in State Education Accountability Systems, April 28, 2014
The Proposed Accountability Plan: A Commentary, April 22, 2014
Designing a State Accountability System: Part II, April 14, 2014
Designing a State Accountability System: Part I, April 7, 2014
March 2014
Designing an Accountability System: Setting the Stage, March 30, 2014
Accountability and the Modern Teachers’ Union, March 21, 2014
Accountability: What the Top Performers Do, March 14, 2014
Accountability and Motivation, March 7, 2014
February 2014
The Failure of Test-Based Accountability, February 27, 2014
NCLB, California and Accountability in All Its Guises, February 21, 2014
Pasi Sahlberg on Finland’s Recent PISA Results, February 14, 2014
What Now? Federal Education Policy Adrift, February 7, 2014
January 2014
Shanghai: Teacher Quality Strategies, January 30, 2014
Tom Loveless on Hukou in China, January 24, 2014
On Writing, January 17, 2014
PISA Denial: Another Flavor, January 10, 2014
December 2013
Response to the Brookings Institution Attach on PISA, December 26, 2013
Why Has US Education Performance Flatlined?, December 19, 2013
PISA on the Teacher as Professional, December 13, 2013
The Meaning of PISA, December 5, 2013
November 2013
Tom Friedman’s Right: There Is No Shanghai Secret, November 21, 2013
Matching the Common Core to the Right Curriculum and Assessment, November 15, 2013
Vocational Education and the American Economy, November 8, 2013
October 2013
Tales of the Common Core, October 31, 2013
NAEP-TIMMS Linking Study: How Well Are We Really Doing, October 25, 2013
The American System for Improving Our Schools, October 17, 2013
Testing and ESEA Reauthorization: The Moment of Truth, October 10, 2013
Concerning Standards, Curriculum and Assessment, October 3, 2013
September 2013
The Race Between Education and Technology – Revisited, September 23, 2013
Linn and Everson on Testing, Standards and Accountability, September 17, 2013
David Driscoll: Implementing the Common Core and the Consortia’s Tests, September 6, 2013
August 2013
VET: The Other Side of Finland’s System, August 30, 2013
School Reform in Philadelphia: A Study in Agony, August 20, 2013
The New Dropouts? The States Divide on Testing and Accountability, August 9, 2013
Dialogue with Dylan Wiliam on Teacher Quality: Part II, August 1, 2013
July 2013
Dialogue with Dylan Wiliam on Teacher Quality: Part I, July 26, 2013
True or False: Teacher Evaluations Improve Accountability, Raise Achievement, July 18, 2013
Governing Education: Is It Possible?, July 11, 2013
June 2013
Teacher Professional Development in Shanghai, June 28, 2013
A New “Common Core” for England, June 20, 2013
The Common Core Mathematics Standards and Community College Requirements, June 14, 2013
A Framework for Thinking and Learning, June 6, 2013
May 2013
Governing American Education: Some Modest Proposals, May 31, 2013
Governing American Education: The Challenge, May 23, 2013
The Common Core and Disadvantaged Students, May 18, 2013
What Does it Really Mean to be College and Work Ready?, May 10, 2013
China on the Charles, May 03, 2013
April 2013
Testing, the Common Core, and Consumer Resistance, April 26, 2013
MOOCs: More Social Mobility or Less?, April 18, 2013
The Myth of Education as the ‘Great Equalizer’, April 12, 2013
David Kirp on Education Reform, April 04, 2013
March 2013
Ravitch and Krashen: Last Round in Common-Core Debate, March 28, 2013
Further Response to Diane Ravitch on Common Core, March 20, 2013
Diane Ravitch: Wrong on the Common Core, March 14, 2013
February 2013
Teacher Quality: Three Views of How to Get It, February 14, 2013
January 2013
The Federal Role in Education Today: How We Got Here and Where We Need to Go, January 24, 2013
The Common Core Standards: Arguments Against and For, January 16, 2013
The Federal Role in Education Today: Why It Makes No Sense At All, January 08, 2013
December 2012
The Chief State School Officers Weigh in on Teacher Quality, December 19, 2012
Next Steps for the “Bar Exam”, December 14, 2012
The AFT Embraces Teacher Quality, December 6, 2012
November 2012
The Skills Gap, Nov 20, 2012
Automation, Employment and the Importance of Vocational Education, Nov 13, 2012
Teacher Quality: Who’s On Which Side and Why, Nov 2, 2012
October 2012
On Time, Oct 22, 2012
Choice and Markets: The Reprise, Oct 10, 2012
Immigration and Education, Oct 4, 2012
September 2012
Choice and Markets: Theory and Practice, Sept 27, 2012
Chicago Teachers’ Strike Part II, Sept 18, 2012
The Politics of the Chicago Teachers’ Strike, Sept 13, 2012
8 Problems with the Common Core State Standards? I Don’t Think So, Sept 5, 2012
August 2012
Instructional Technology: Villain of the Piece—Or Savior?, August 9, 2012
Higher Education All Over Again, August 2, 2012
July 2012
The Rise of the MOOCs, July 26, 2012
Manufacturing Jobs: What Will It Really Take to Bring Them Back?, July 19, 2012
High School: A New Home for the Liberal Arts Curriculum?, July 10, 2012
June 2012
Differentiated Instruction: A Solution to the Finance Crisis?, June 28, 2012
STEM: Why it Makes No Sense, June 19, 2012
Obama and Romney on Education Policy: Part II, June 14, 2012
A Few Questions for Obama and Romney on Education Policy, June 6, 2012
May 2012
Sahlberg’s Vision: Balancing Teacher Capacity and National Education Goals, May 29, 2012
Equity and Quality: Is it Possible to Get Both?, May 22, 2012
Implementing the Common Core State Standards, May 15, 2012
Teacher Quality and Teacher Accountability, May 8, 2012
College Loan Interest Rates: The Real Issue, May 1, 2012
April 2012
Finland Embraced a Highly Productive Reform Strategy; The United States is Racing Toward a Dead End—Why?, April 25, 2012
A Response to Jay Greene, April 17, 2012
School-by-School vs. System Reform: Why Business Leaders Need to Go Back to the Future, April 12, 2012
How Australia Developed a National Curriculum and Assessment System, April 5, 2012
March 2012
An Isolationist Report from the Council on Foreign Relations, March 26, 2012
On Borrowing Best Practices and Even Better Policies, March 19, 2012
U.S. Education Performance: Is Governance the Central Issue?, March 14, 2012
On Open-Source Instructional Materials, March 7, 2012
February 2012
The Brown Center Report: When Will American Researchers Take on the Issues That Really Matter?, February 29, 2012
How the Brown Center Report Got it Wrong: No Relationship Between Academic Standards and Student Performance?, February 22, 2012
An Education Agenda for the Next President, February 14, 2012
Resilience and the Disadvantaged Student, February 7, 2012
January 2012
Hey Buddy! Got Some Time?, January 31, 2012
The Death of Vocational Education and the Demise of the American Middle Class, January 26, 2012
On Curriculum, Assessment and (Especially) Writing in the Modern Age, January 19, 2012
NCLB and the Issue of Accountability, January 12, 2012
An International Perspective on Teacher Quality, January 5, 2012
December 2011
Time to Look Under the Park Bench, December 20, 2011
American Exceptionalism, December 14, 2011
International Benchmarking – Different from Conventional Research, December 7, 2011
November 2011
Kick-Off, November 29, 2011