July 6, 2009
“What lies at the core of education is not what students encounter, but how they encounter it, how they experience, interpret, engage, relate to, and respond to classroom circumstances,” writes Thomas E. Ricks.
July 2, 2009
“We are creating an unhealthy adolescent population in part because of low expectations from parents and educators,” writes Deborah J. Rhea.
June 26, 2009
“Today’s economy requires strong minds developed in classrooms, rather than strong bodies developed on playing fields,” writes John R. Gerdy.
June 26, 2009
“New teachers should be able to use a more diverse range of strategies than they are now taught in their preparation programs,” writes Sandra Stotsky.
June 26, 2009
“Why is our public education system being aligned to create cultures of testing, as opposed to cultures of learning?,” writes Sam Chaltain.
June 26, 2009
“Not all children have parents who are involved enough in their education to take advantage of choice. Concern about food, clothing, and shelter takes precedence over schooling," writes Walt Gardner.
June 12, 2009
"Common sense seems to dictate that if you want results on an urgent problem, you should be hard-nosed about it. The trouble is that this does not motivate people to bring about whole-system change," write Michael Fullan and Ben Levin.
June 12, 2009
"In her own backyard, Rhee is making policy decisions that are explicitly designed to make adults look good, even as many children are left behind," writes Jennifer L. Jennings.
June 12, 2009
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan writes, "If we don’t take aggressive action to fix the problems of low-performing schools, we are putting the children in them on track for failure."
June 11, 2009
“We need fixes (not weakening), and we need to make important next steps. But before we listen to those whose failed policies have not worked in the past telling us to kill NCLB, let’s be very, very careful,” writes B. Alexander Kress.
June 11, 2009
“With more-focused and realistic goals, we could succeed in turning around the biggest school problems, and not in the dim and distant future,” writes William Berkson.
June 11, 2009
“In the 21st century, core competencies are as important as core knowledge,” writes Tony Wagner.
June 11, 2009
"This radical experiment of early college has caused some adult skeptics to change their minds about what low-income students can accomplish and what opportunities should be put before them," write Nancy Hoffman and Michael Webb.
June 11, 2009
“There is no guarantee that voluntary national content standards would be better than the standards currently in use by states, but there are at least five good reasons to think that they would be,” write Andrew C. Porter and Morgan S. Polikoff.
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