Cross-posted at Education Week. Some of you may have noticed that I stopped blogging two months ago. I fell off a bike on a small island in the Bahamas, did a lot of damage to my spine and spent the next five weeks in two hospitals. ...
Cross-posted at Education Week. For a great many students in American schools, school begins in elementary school with failure at a walk and ends in high school with failure at a gallop. It starts when they first arrive at the schoolhouse door, already far behind. How can...
Cross-posted at Education Week. Over the years, when we have visited countries whose schools outperform our own, we ask our colleagues in their ministries of education what proportion of their students are classified as what we call "special education" students. The answer to that question in...
Cross-posted at Education Week. Hand-harvesting fruits and vegetables in the San Fernando Valley is back-breaking work, done under the burning sun by people who are always on the move from farm to farm, county to county, following the crops. Not only is it back-breaking, and the...
This month we cover dropping enrollment in U.S. teacher education programs, education reforms in Singapore, Japan, Taiwan and Poland, the OECD's recent look at VET systems and the ideal school size, and more. Updates on Singapore’s VET reforms, teacher career management and special education Singapore’s new SkillsFuture...