Cross-posted at Education Week. Lyndon Johnson, himself a former teacher, was known to tell the story of a young, unemployed teacher who applied for a job in Texas. He was asked by a school board member whether he taught that the world was round or flat. ...
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...
Cross-posted at Education Week. There are, as far as I know, only two strategies available to countries that want to develop the kind of talent needed to enter the front ranks of nations providing broadly shared prosperity to their people: education and immigration. Most of the...
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. 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,...
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. Like tectonic plates breaking up under enormous pressure to form new continents, the two big American political parties are morphing right in front of us. I have argued in an earlier blog that this process began when Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark...
Cross-posted at Education Week. I ran into an acquaintance on the ferry the other day. She told me that after she began to wake from the shock of the election's outcome she decided that she wanted to get out of the cocoon of her circle 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...