Cross-posted on Education Week In my last blog on this subject, I described a list of major structural problems with the way American education is governed. These include the struggle for control of American education between the states and the federal government; the wide dispersion of...
Cross-posted on Education Week A group of Democratic state senators in Pennsylvania has now joined the revolt against the Common Core State Standards, saying "...
Cross-posted on Education Week Earlier this week, the National Center on Education and the Economy released a study we have been working on for almost three years. There has been a lot of talk in recent years about getting high school students ready for college and...
Marc Tucker recently interviewed Kai-ming Cheng, Professor and Chair of Education and Senior Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hong Kong, on the significance of his essay, Learning and society in a post-industrial era. Marc Tucker: In your essay, Learning and society in a...
Cross-posted on Education Week Some consumers, evidently, have had enough. Parents in some schools are refusing to send their children to mandated testing sessions, and we have reports of teachers refusing to proctor them. What are we to make of this? I can think of no high-performing...
Cross-posted on Education Week We Americans have long liked to think of ourselves as born into a classless society, a place in which the best jobs, the highest incomes and the upper reaches of social status are reached not by being born into the right family,...
Cross-posted on Education Week Most of the arguments I have heard against the Common Core State Standards strike me as hardly worth responding to, but I came across a piece on the subject the other day by Yong Zhao that is rather thoughtful. Zhao is presidential...
On a recent trip to England, CIEB Director Betsy Brown Ruzzi talked with Matt Sanders, lead education policy advisor in Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s office, to discuss the recent changes to the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) that the government launched in mid-September. Some...
Cross-posted on Education Week Much has been written in recent months about the skills gap — the gap between the skills people seem to have and skills that employers need. So, when I saw that 60 Minutes was doing a segment on the topic last week,...
Cross-posted on Education Week I just returned from a week in Australia and another in Singapore, and found much food for thought in both. Mining is by far Australia's biggest industry. But that does not mean that it is Australia's biggest employer. I learned that once a...