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 most enduring feature of the American education system is its character as a sorting machine. But you would never know it from the way we think about our education system. Many American teachers think of tracking students as a particularly European vice,...
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 Why do some countries grow rich and others languish in poverty? This is the question addressed in a very important new book, The Knowledge Capital of Nations, by Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann, and in a paper by the same authors titled,...