Cross-posted at Education Week. "Why do I need to study Algebra I?" "Because you will need it to study Algebra II." "Why do I need to study Algebra II?" "Because you will need it to study precalculus." "And why do I need to study precalculus?" "Because you will need it to...
Cross-posted at Education Week. On June 28, the Fordham Institute published a blog by Checker Finn titled "Schools Are Still Peddling the Self-Esteem Hoax" that sparked an energetic and interesting debate. I thought I would weigh in. In his piece, Checker takes aim at the 'self-esteem' movement,...
Cross-posted at Education Week. Another year has come and is now headed for the exit, headlines are filled with terms like "polar vortex" and "President-Elect Trump", and I am once again reminded of how grateful I am to have an outlet like this blog to connect...
Cross-posted at Education Week. In my last blog, I told you why I was not surprised that the OECD data appear to show that national investments in educational technologies have resulted in zero improvements in student achievement. I described very creative software that has been available...
Cross-posted at Education Week. NCEE's Center on International Education Benchmarking released an important new report this week by noted Australian researcher Ben Jensen and his colleagues at Learning First. Not So Elementary: Primary School Teacher Quality in Top-Performing Systems looks at what may be described as...
I tried to make three points in last week's blog about the renewed interest in career and technical education. The first is that if career and technical education is to be useful, it has to be built on a sound command of the basic...
Cross-posted at Education Week I was in Hong Kong last week visiting some schools, drawn there by Hong Kong's consistently high performance on international comparisons of student performance. My aim in this blog is to briefly describe those schools and then share some reflections on the...
Cross-posted at Education Week I recently interviewed for this column Charles Fadel, the Founder of the Center for Curriculum Redesign and a visiting scholar at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. He has studied physics, electrical engineering, and business. Starting his career in semiconductors and working his...
by Marc Tucker I recently interviewed Charles Fadel for this column. Charles is the Founder and Chairman of the Center for Curriculum Design and a visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has studied physics, electrical engineering, and business. Starting his career...
Cross-posted at Education Week Readers of this blog will know that I also write a regular piece for the Center on International Education Benchmarking's monthly newsletter. After my recent piece on technology in the classroom, my friend Ron Wolk and I carried on a dialogue about...