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...
Cross-posted at Education Week. Last year, I wrote a blog about a young man from Alabama who went to work in a new plant built by the Golden Dragon Copper Tubing Company, a Chinese firm that had located in Alabama in response to tax incentives provided...
Cross-posted at Education Week. The case for charter schools is often made by showcasing charter schools that are doing a good job of meeting the needs of low-income, minority students—usually in urban districts. Opponents often respond by pointing to regular public schools whose performance is no...
Cross-posted at Education Week. Many people know that the United States has for years performed very poorly on the OECD's PISA comparative survey of national student performance of 15-year-olds. However, Massachusetts has participated in the last two surveys, and, in this last one, emerged as a...
Cross-posted on Education Week In my last blog, I told you why I thought Diane Ravitch is wrong on the Common Core State Standards. She responded by wondering why I am not worried, as she is, that the standards are developmentally inappropriate for the early grades. I...