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...
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...
by Marc Tucker “I love the uneducated,” said Donald Trump…many times. As well he might. If he is elected president, it is the uneducated who will have put him over the top. Neither candidate has said much about education, but, in fact, the whole election is...
Cross-posted at Education Week. This is the third and last in a series of blogs about the orthodoxies of Republican and Democratic education policy over the last 40 years and the need for a new paradigm for national education politics. In the first blog in the...
Cross-posted at Education Week. In my last blog, I took the Republican Party to task for following a policy trajectory over the last three decades or so on education reforms based on the introduction of market forces in the public schools arena, a trajectory that seems...
Cross-posted at Education Week. I ask this question, of course, partly tongue in cheek. I have good friends—including current and former federal and state officials—who are Republicans who continue to be strong supporters of public education. But I ask it to make a serious point. The arc...
Cross-posted at Education Week. Like so many others, I am watching the presidential election campaign unfold with a gathering sense of dread. And, I must say, a certain sense of shame. Thomas Jefferson famously told us that "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...
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...