EdSpeak

Well this is an imposing title! I decided to use it to emphasize that we need new types of educational systems that not only

The First School in Boston The Boston Latin School, established in 1635 is the first public school in Boston as well as the United States.

Performance assessment is making a comeback! To be clear, testing and assessment are not the same, although the melding of this two terms is

What do students think their own grades should be? Do students always think their grades should be higher? Do teachers grade students lower in

Different Neighbors The words “Equity” and “Access” and “Quality” are used to indicate the goals we have for the US K-12 educational system. These

I want to give a big shout out to the US Department of Education (USDOE) for sponsoring rotating art exhibits inside their headquarters in

I am down here in Washington to attend several policy gatherings. One was last Thursday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where the

Professionalism All of the work to date to improve teaching has resulted in a general level of professionalism that can be seen in most

When we talk about changing schools, everyone has a different reaction. Some view this as a futile attempt to change for no reason and

Introduction Today’s blog is about how school choice has not really been implemented as a system. The Learning Policy Institute has produced a report on school

One of the ways in which we turn on each other is to blame someone else for our problems. Natural as this may be,

Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream that all men were created equal echoed the founding fathers of America. As opposed to the aristocracy of the

Authority The American system of education is not a national system of education, but rather, a local authority system of towns, regions and state

My son and I spent two days at an Audubon Site in Massachusetts learning how to handle all kinds of backcountry health emergencies. This

Happy Holidays to one and all! Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746 – 1827), a swiss educator who was influential in eradicating illiteracy, hardly gets any mention

Money can not be divorced from human activity. So it is with schools and the frustration many years ago about the cost of bloated

In working out the relationship between quantitative and qualitative research I came across Einstein’s phrase: “There is no hitching post in the universe—as far

One of the first research reports on the arts in education was called, “Basic Abilities Required for Understanding and Creation in the Arts,” by

One of the things I learned at the most recent Learning and the Brain conference in Boston was Jerome Kagan’s theory that after 100,000 years humans

I went to this three-day conference over the weekend along with about a 1,000 teachers and 50 researchers. We were treated to a most

100 years ago, the Allies of World War I signed the agreement to accept the Surrender of the Germans and the cessation of hostilities

There is a clear link between education and voting and it is not the one you think. If anyone can vote and anyone can

In this era of multiple proposals for improving schools, the arts provide an interesting strategy that combines natural engagement with increased learning. The arts

Texas Miracle After the 1983 landmark study called, “A Nation at Risk,” some of the locusts of accountability shifted away from teachers, the principal