04 May A Nation at Risk Was Fake News
Cross-posted at Education Week. Anya Kamenetz recently did a story for NPR in which she reported that the authors of A Nation at Risk, the famous 1983 U.S. government report on the nation's schools, "...
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13 Apr The NAEP Data: Does It Show That ‘Education Reform’ Has Worked—Or That It Hasn’t?
Cross-posted at Education Week. The April 1st Washington Post carried an op-ed by Arne Duncan, President Obama's Secretary of Education titled, "People are saying education reform hasn't worked. Don't believe them." On April 10, Education Week announced the most recent results from the National Assessment of...
22 Feb Maryland Takes a Big Step Toward Adapting Lessons from Top Systems
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22 Feb Walking the Talk: Next Steps for the Empowered Educators Research
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26 Jan Sanders and Trump on Jobs: Both Wrong
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...
29 Sep Using the SAT as a High School Exit Exam? Not Such a Good Idea
Cross-posted at Education Week. The logic seems airtight. You are looking for a good measure of whether students are college ready. Why not find a gold-plated measure, one that has long been used by higher education institutions for that very purpose? Why not use the SAT? My...
22 Sep Can History Teachers Build a New Politics?
Cross-posted at Education Week. I woke up this morning to an NPR interview with an Italian-American. The fellow being interviewed was a bit anguished. He understood, he said, the problem Native Americans have with statues honoring Christopher Columbus, the man who paved the way for what...
16 Jun The Trump Budget Won’t Make America Great Again
Cross-posted at Education Week. The first reaction is all gut. The budget, on its face, would represent a gigantic redistribution of resources from the poor to the rich. To say that that is morally bankrupt is to understate the case. There is no rational argument for...
12 May Dispatch From Paris on the Eve of the Election
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...
27 Mar The Trump Budget’s Assault on Reason
Cross-posted at Education Week. When the Trump administration released its "America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again," it was natural for professional educators to go right to the pages describing the proposed budget for the Department of Education. Some must have been relieved,...