It seems like when you ask others what K-12 school achievement gap they are worried about, the answers are local and personal. This makes
On Saturday, President Obama declared an over-emphasis on testing in our nation’s schools. in a twenty-year trend of increased accountability through increased testing, the
This week I sit down with a remarkable gentleman who started in Africa and has risen to become the Headmaster of the Groton School.
There are two types of legislation that are in conflict with each other: The legislative budget (Budget2015) and the Reauthorization of the Elementary and
As readers of this post may remember, the effects of arts integration on student achievement is the focus of our 8 year study in Rochester, NY.
There is a need for schools to find ways to improve that allow the school’s “culture” to guide the improvement process. Some accreditation processes
Summer vacation is over and schools are back in the swing of things! The weather is just now turning a little colder and my
In the last rays of the summer sun, my mind reviews the role of camps in children’s lives. For me, my uncle’s camp was
Today I am on vacation in Montreal, Canada. So I found John Abbot’s blog about what is not going on here in Canada, and here
Testing school children is a very old tradition. At the school level, every teacher thinks about how they will know that students are learning
A few weeks ago, the United States Senate passed their version of the re-authroization of the “No Child Left Behind” Law (See my story
Accountability and the Federal Role: A Third Way on ESEA by Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in EducationPaul T. Hill, Center on
There is a great website on the arts called Create Equity. They research and write about everything arts including the focus for today, participation in
Last week a new education bill was passed in the United States Senate. This bill, called the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 (ECAA,
Student-Centered The paradigm for teaching and learning is slowly shifting from teacher-centered to student-centered. The old paradigm invented in the industrial revolution included teacher
One of the most basic problems with education in K-12 schools is the idea that teachers tell and students learn. This one dimensional way
Do you have a rowdy kid who gets into trouble at school and has been losing step with the learning process because of his
The paradigm for teaching and learning is slowly shifting from teacher-centered to student-centered. The old paradigm included teacher directed learning activities such as lecturing,
Teachers are begging for new ways to engage students in American classrooms. Each year brings a fresh set of student eyes, an additional set
Evaluating teachers is difficult from any point of view. Shortages in teacher placement continue to prevent the field from professionalizing to a set of
There are many efforts underway in the United States to emphasize a type of teaching and learning method that is called “Student-Centered.” From Students at
One of the great gifts of standardized testing was the premise of giving the same questions to many students would allow for a more
On this memorial day, I wanted to write about remembering those who have gone before us. In particular, the people we admired and who
I am now working on the four-year compendium report: “Measuring the Effect of the Arts on Academic Achievement in Disadvantaged Populations.” Through a rigorous,