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02 Oct Global Ed Talks with Anthony Mackay: An Interview with Hekia Parata

Posted at 06:00h in Top of the Class Newsletter

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31 Aug Arne Duncan’s Take on School Reform: Read It!

Posted at 04:30h in Tucker's Blog

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Cross-posted at Education Week. How can you not like this man and admire him? He comes across on every page as smart, honest, decent, articulate, knowledgeable, humble and deeply caring. Who could wish for a better advocate for the children many of our schools are failing...

27 Jul How Stories, More Than Facts, Shape the Possibilities for Education Reform

Posted at 05:30h in Tucker's Blog

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Cross-posted at Education Week. Many educators think that young people's understanding of the world is built by enabling them to accumulate a growing pile of important facts. But communications experts have long known that stories trump facts every time. Stories are explanations of how the world...

11 May Two Theories of School Improvement – Which Works Better?

Posted at 04:42h in Tucker's Blog

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Cross-posted at Education Week. You have just been made commissioner of education in your home state. Your maiden speech is coming up. It’s your chance to lay out your agenda and get statewide support for it. But what is that agenda? You know your state can provide...

04 May A Nation at Risk Was Fake News

Posted at 04:52h in Tucker's Blog

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Cross-posted at Education Week. Anya Kamenetz recently did a story for NPR in which she reported that the authors of A Nation at Risk, the famous 1983 U.S. government report on the nation's schools, "...

13 Apr The NAEP Data: Does It Show That ‘Education Reform’ Has Worked—Or That It Hasn’t?

Posted at 04:00h in Tucker's Blog

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Cross-posted at Education Week. The April 1st Washington Post carried an op-ed by Arne Duncan, President Obama's Secretary of Education titled, "People are saying education reform hasn't worked. Don't believe them." On April 10, Education Week announced the most recent results from the National Assessment of...

12 Jan David Driscoll’s Lessons From Massachusetts

Posted at 06:00h in Tucker's Blog

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Cross-posted at Education Week. It is not often that I describe a book I have read as a treasure, but David Driscoll's Commitment and Common Sense: Leading Education Reform in Massachusetts is exactly that. The book, written in the form of a memoir, is mainly the...

01 Dec Wahhabi Schools: Saudi Arabia’s Most Successful Export?

Posted at 06:00h in Tucker's Blog

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Cross-posted at Education Week. The United States appears to have taken sides in the great Middle East confrontation between Shia Islam and Sunni Islam, which is to say, in geopolitical terms, between Iran and Saudi Arabia. We have chosen the Saudis. And, in choosing the Saudis,...

13 Oct Has the U.S. Been “Sleepwalking Through History” or Not?

Posted at 06:00h in Tucker's Blog

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Cross-posted at Education Week. In last week's blog, I pointed out that, when the first PISA results were released in 2001, students in Germany and the United States both performed at about the average for all countries in the survey, but Germany reacted with what came...

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31 Aug Arne Duncan’s Take on School Reform: Read It!

27 Jul How Stories, More Than Facts, Shape the Possibilities for Education Reform

11 May Two Theories of School Improvement – Which Works Better?

04 May A Nation at Risk Was Fake News

13 Apr The NAEP Data: Does It Show That ‘Education Reform’ Has Worked—Or That It Hasn’t?

12 Jan David Driscoll’s Lessons From Massachusetts

01 Dec Wahhabi Schools: Saudi Arabia’s Most Successful Export?

13 Oct Has the U.S. Been “Sleepwalking Through History” or Not?

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02 Oct Global Ed Talks with Anthony Mackay: An Interview with Hekia Parata

18 Jul A Successful Reform

31 Aug Arne Duncan’s Take on School Reform: Read It!

27 Jul How Stories, More Than Facts, Shape the Possibilities for Education Reform

11 May Two Theories of School Improvement – Which Works Better?

04 May A Nation at Risk Was Fake News

13 Apr The NAEP Data: Does It Show That ‘Education Reform’ Has Worked—Or That It Hasn’t?

12 Jan David Driscoll’s Lessons From Massachusetts

01 Dec Wahhabi Schools: Saudi Arabia’s Most Successful Export?

13 Oct Has the U.S. Been “Sleepwalking Through History” or Not?

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