Cross-posted at Education Week I just read a very thoughtful piece in the Washington Post by Robert C. Pianta, Dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, taking issue with his peers’ blanket rejection of the efforts of the U.S. Department of...
Cross-posted at Education Week There has been a great deal of heated debate about how to fix our nation's flawed accountability system and the law that created it, No Child Left Behind. On the one side are the administration and a coalition of civil rights groups...
Cross-posted at Education Week Prior to No Child Left Behind, the federal government had conceived of its role as providing aid to the states for a variety of purposes and enforcing civil rights law in the schools. There was broad agreement that these roles did not...
Cross-posted at Education Week There is a large literature on teachers' professional development. Unfortunately, it is mostly about the provision of workshops. I doubt that anyone is surprised to learn that workshops that teachers attend only because they are required to do so and are paid...
Cross-posted at Education Week In another piece in my blog series on the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, I interview Jim Pellegrino, Co-Director of the Learning Sciences Research Institute, Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of...
Cross-posted at Education Week Howard Everson is Professor & Director, Center for Advanced Study in Education, Graduate Center, City University of New York. Marc Tucker: Howard, when the Common Core was released, what did you think was most likely to trip it up? What concerned you? Howard Everson:...
Cross-posted from Education Week Not long after our new report on the American accountability system was released, Diane Ravitch responded in a blog. She began with a very brief but accurate summary of the main points I made. Then she quoted at length from a...
By Marc Tucker In this interview, Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London, focuses on the improvement of the practice of experienced teachers. We see how feedback from mentors who have faced the same challenges as the teacher being mentored can...
Cross-posted from Education Week A while back, I wrote a series of blogs on accountability. When I had finished, I thought it might be useful if I were to put them together into one tightly woven narrative. We released that paper today. You can find it...
Cross-posted from Education Week Mike Kirst has had a distinguished career as a leading education policy analyst. But, he's not just an observer. Kirst has long been in the thick of the action, starting with key leadership positions on the U.S. Senate Staff, in the Executive...