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 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 I feel, some days, as though I am trying to swim upstream when all about me are going in the other direction. I am hailing those going by me, saying, "Hey! Stop!" But they don't. They look at me and scratch their...
Cross-posted from Education Week I recently spoke with Ben Jensen, School Education Program Director at the Grattan Institute in Australia, about Shanghai's professional development system for teachers. Ben is a highly regarded analyst and commenter on school education. He previously worked at the OECD Education Directorate...
By Jennifer Craw In 2012 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and America Achieves collaborated to launch a pilot of the OECD Test for Schools, a test based on PISA that allows participating high schools to compare their school level results with results from...
Cross-posted on Education Week Last week, the Center for American Progress released a paper they had commissioned from me called Governing American Education: Why This Dry Subject May Hold the Key to Advances in American Education. In it, I argue that this country is very unlikely...
Cross-posted on Education Week Some consumers, evidently, have had enough. Parents in some schools are refusing to send their children to mandated testing sessions, and we have reports of teachers refusing to proctor them. What are we to make of this? I can think of no high-performing...
Cross-posted on Education Week For more than forty years, David Kirp has been one of our most incisive, original and refreshingly literate scholars writing about American education. Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools, Kirp's newest book,...
Cross-posted on Education Week This will be, I promise, the last round in a series of exchanges with Diane Ravitch focused on the Common Core State Standards. Her response to my last post was to post on her site some comments posted on my blog from...