Cross-posted at Education Week. I'm told that the hottest item at the recent meeting of the Council of Chief State School Officers was ESSA, the new federal education legislation that replaced No Child Left Behind. That, I thought, is encouraging. That must mean that the chiefs...
Cross-posted at Education Week Change in education is celebrated these days, especially if it is disruptive. Being Americans, we generally assume that change is a good thing. We associate it with dynamism, action and the long trajectory of improvement in the human condition. In the language of...
Cross-posted at Education Week Readers of this blog will know that I also write a regular piece for the Center on International Education Benchmarking's monthly newsletter. After my recent piece on technology in the classroom, my friend Ron Wolk and I carried on a dialogue about...
Cross-posted at Education Week The debate we are now carrying on about the Common Core is very odd. Putatively a debate about what the standards should be, it is really about what level of government should be setting the standards. Only at the margins are we...
Cross-posted at Education Week On the one hand we have California's drought. On the other hand we have the stunning collapse of the quality of the nation's workforce. Both represent clear and present dangers of the most dramatic kind. California, without skipping a beat, makes one...
Cross-posted at Education Week Geoff Masters, the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Council for Educational Research, is one of the treasures of Australia. Not just my opinion. He holds the Medal of the Order of Australia, the highest honor the Australian government can bestow on...
Cross-posted on Education Week A couple of weeks ago, Diane Ravitch came out against the Common Core State Standards, saying that they "...
Cross-posted on Education Week Shall I let you in on a little secret? Not long after the Obama administration took office, my colleague Betsy Brown Ruzzi and I paid a visit to an old friend, Carmel Martin, who had left behind many years as a senior...