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I’ve walked the Normandy beaches a few times in my life. It’s a windswept place, damp and desolate in winter even more than most beach towns. Yet on warm summer days people are on the beaches enjoying them. That can seem jarring and almost disrespectful if you consider a place like Omaha Beach to be …
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Years ago I spent some time interviewing Ted Sizer, who was as thoughtful an educator as you will find. Sizer was no fan of some key aspects of the 2001 No Child Left Behind law, but he had a plausible alternative. That set him apart from many critics, who lacked any serious alternative to a policy …
Bellwether’s Ebony Lambert on student mental health. Math wars, begun they have! No really, they have. On the CRT wars, today, I’d recommend this op-ed from the Indy Star and this discussion with NYT’s Jane Coaston and Michelle Goldberg, and linguist John McWhorter. I’m left with a sort of pedestrian question – is a big part of …
I’m guest-blogging this week about education in China. Yesterday I described the fast growth of Chinese private schools. That surge has only worsened the shortage in American and British teachers over there, for which there is high demand. One headmaster told me he’d attended a particular international recruiting conference in 2017, where 2 Chinese schools …
Achievement First is seeking a principal for its Bushwick Middle School in Brooklyn, NY. Education Pioneers is looking for a Program Director in Washington, DC. And is this the most interesting small district school superintendency in the country? Could be…
Here’s a recent presentation from the Regional Ed Lab – Southwest about reading levels and the Texas standards. Slide 12 is the key one but it’s all interesting. The punchline is that we’re about to have a big debate about whether No Child’s demands are all that unreasonable, understanding them accurately and in context matters.