Cross-posted at Education Week. You are clearly intrigued with the vocational education and training systems in Switzerland, the Netherlands and England and would like our country to look at them as models for what we here in the United States might do to strengthen our woefully...
Cross-posted at Education Week. The champions are in the ring. The crowd goes wild. Bernie Sanders, the likely 2020 Democratic candidate, says the problem with the economy is the fat cats who have rigged it for their benefit. He wants to unleash a progressive tax schedule on...
Cross-posted at Education Week. In a recent blog, I offered a simple line of reasoning: if you are a state or nation that wants to be competitive in the global economy, and the skills you can offer on the global labor market are low but the...
Cross-posted at Education Week. "The messages can't be about 'job retraining.' These folks have heard it a million times and, frankly, they think it's complete and total bulls**t," he continued. "Talk about policies that will incentivize companies to repatriate manufacturing jobs. Talk about infrastructure ...
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 I'm really looking forward to our sailing trip next month. I've been wondering lately what you have been thinking about what you want to do after high school. At 16, this must seem to you to be a long way away, but...
Cross-posted from Education Week In my last blog, I described a very different approach to holding teachers accountable for the quality of their work than the approach now dominant in the United States. The strategy I have in mind is based on professional—as opposed to blue-collar—models...
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 on Education Week I recently spoke with Kai-ming Cheng, Professor and Chair of Education and Senior Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China. As a member of China's State Advisory Committee on Curriculum Reform and of the Hong...