Cross-posted at Education Week. My flight from New York arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris about 12:30 p.m. and an hour later I slid into a taxi for the trip into the city. My cab driver, I discovered, had a only a bit of...
Cross-posted at Education Week. Ah, you say. Tucker must be out of his mind. How could education and training policy hold the key to American politics after an election in which education and training policy was barely mentioned? My analysis starts with the situation in which the...
Cross-posted at Education Week. After talking with my friend Harry Spence about the election the other day, it occurred to me that you might be as interested as I was in what he had to say. Spence, an attorney who has never practiced law, is the...
Cross-posted at Education Week. Congratulations! You confounded all the pundits, refused to be repackaged by those around you, ran a campaign that almost everyone said could not possibly work and then pulled it off. Now you need to govern. The measure of your success will be...
Cross-posted at Education Week. We start from the assumption that policy should aim at getting a first-rate teacher in front of every student. Then we note that the research on expertise says that it takes about 10 years to become an expert in just about any...
In recent administrations, both when Democrats and Republicans were in the White House, the senior figures in both parties and their economic advisors agreed that free trade was in the country's best interest. Of course, everyone understood that this was true overall, not necessarily for...
Cross-posted at Education Week Watching the presidential candidates of both parties debating and campaigning against each other, I find my attention wandering. Neither the questions I hear them being asked nor the answers I hear them giving address what I take to be the central problems...
Cross-posted on Education Week David Brooks is, in my view, one of the most thoughtful and well-informed columnists writing today. So I was delighted to see that he had written a piece on the Chicago teachers' strike. Delighted, that is, until I saw what had written. In...
Cross-posted on Education Week I will weigh in on the substantive issues in the Chicago strike next week if it has not been settled by then. But here, in this blog, I offer a few reflections on the circular (dog bites man bites dog) character of...