What if this extreme focus on testing is driving us away from what students need? What if the current test-driven mania in the United States is wrong?
What if this extreme focus on testing is driving us away from what students need? What if the current test-driven mania in the United States is wrong?
Unlike our neighbors in Wisconsin, Ohio, and other states, Illinois education stakeholders worked together to craft an aggressive bill that makes our state the nation's new leader in education reform.
The education of children in foster care is one step in a long, needed march towards a future where we put all children first.
Australia is on the Move! Professor Barry McGaw, Chair of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), has a brand new national curriculum to explain.
What if corporate honchos, politicos and other non-professionals decided to give up on education and stick their reforming noses into medicine instead?
It is true that "troublemakers" are potential leaders, but turning them around takes a commitment that has been lost on most data-driven reformers.
Students say hire teachers who know and love their subject matter, have demonstrated classroom teaching experience and enjoy spending time with children and adolescents.
Now, courtesy of Gates and others, we're on the front edge of an analogous privatizing wave that will drown public education. Once it's gone, we'll never get it back.
I've had enough of watching my colleagues play politics with our kids' futures. I'm putting together a list of education reforms -- real reforms -- to promote in Congress, and I want your help.
The truth is that the supporters of high-performing charter schools are trying to save as many minority kids as they can -- one small school at a time.
I ask you to think long and hard about what the future of California -- and our nation -- will look like if our public schools go down in flames.
In Pittsburgh, we've been forced to take risks to improve the chances for our students' success, and it's had a positive payoff.
Instead of hailing a successful teacher evaluation program, Winerup turns his story into another excuse to throw punches at the school reform movement.
Punishing parents for their so-called bad parenting unfairly stigmatizes them as bad parents when they may, in fact, want the very best for their children.
Data can be a game changer. And when it comes to education, we must change the game. There's no other way to restart our sputtering economy and prepare our citizens for the jobs of the 21st Century.
Can a school be both good and bad at the same time? Is educational quality -- like beauty -- in the eye of the beholder or do test scores say it all?
I had the pleasure of speaking further with Chancellor Spahn about his roadmap to develop world leaders.
Tomorrow, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop is presenting a report at the E 3 Expo in Los Angeles that may surprise media designers and c...
Last month I visited Furr High School in Houston and met Dr. Bertie Simmons, the woman almost single-handedly responsible for Furr's dramatic turnaround.
According to Diane Ravitch, writing in a recent New York Times op-ed essay, titled, of course, "Waiting for a School Miracle," high-powered education reformers are claiming "miracles" for their reform efforts.