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