There are always people looking for new designs for schools. The charter school movement has taken new designs and funded them through new funding structures that allow much of the money allocated to schools to pass directly to those schools. … Continued
I write a lot about improving student learning, but with reading scores flat, do we need better models for learning, better models for assessing and better models for environments to accomplish both? In this blog I look at a model … Continued
It is important to remember that we teach humans and all humans have struggles that they are trying to overcome. “Daniel, a student at Philadelphia Elementary School lost all his belongings in a house fire. However, teachers and students, fastened … Continued
There is an enduring tension between getting every student to meet a common standard and honoring their individuality in how they attain that common standard. Teachers have for years resolved this by helping students in a more individual way while … Continued
Today’s blog is very important for arts in education people. If the arts are to be taken seriously, we must join the mainstream reform efforts in general, and understand the best ideas in specific, in order to partner well with … Continued
In the last blog, we followed the thinking of Marc Tucker, the past head of NCEE, and his writing in Marc Tucker’s Blog. He argues for high-performance systems that need to be studied and copied as our own system for educating … Continued
Marc Tucker, the past head of NCEE, is writing Marc Tucker’s Blog that I think we should read. In it he writes that our research in education is focused on the outcomes from a centuries old system of education. For … Continued
Guest Post: Laura K. Reeder Back-to-school season is here. Students are refreshing backpacks with supplies and adjusting to new schedules. Yet, many immigrant students and their families are wondering if they should go to school at all. Immigration politics are … Continued
Dear America, I want to invite you into my home to play some games. Let’s start with Scrabble! Let’s place all the names of our people together in that complex and crossed way. Let’s make all of our names belong … Continued
Introduction In today’s blog, I have given over the entire issue to published information from NH Department of Education, to explain the use of graduation competencies and how performance assessments will be used to assess those competencies. This information has … Continued