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Commentary
11.25.2014
Advanced Education, Curriculum & Instruction

Punishing achievement in our schools

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

President Obama’s contempt for the Constitution, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s unfortunate disregard of that document, have been loudly and justly decried by critics of executive overreach. Less heralded, but equally troubling, is the mission creep of the Office for Civil Rights as it works to reshape the education world and to right whatever alleged wrongs it thinks it sees.

Commentary
11.25.2014
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

Ten rules for teaching reading with prior knowledge

Tim Shanahan

[Editor's note: This is part two of a multi-part series on the use of prior knowledge in literacy. It originally appeared in a slightly different form at Tim Shanahan's blog, Shanahan on Reading.

Report
11.25.2014
Teachers & School Leaders

Building a Lattice for School Leadership

Jonathan Supovitz

Over the past decade, the English government has revamped that country’s approach to school leadership. At the center of the reform is the sensible idea that school leadership needs to be a team endeavor. While not a new idea—there’s been for years plenty of discussion about “distributed leadership” on both sides of the pond—the Brits got busy actually making it happen as opposed to jawboning about it. Central to their leadership structure is the formalization of three levels of school leaders, each with distinct roles and responsibilities: headteachers who lead schools (equivalent to the principal’s role in the U.S.), senior leaders or deputy heads who assist the headteacher (similar to the vice principal role in American education but...

Commentary
11.24.2014
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

Prior knowledge: Can we really level the playing field?

Tim Shanahan

[Editor's note: This is part one of a multi-part series on the use of prior knowledge in literacy. It originally appeared in a slightly different form at Tim Shanahan's blog, Shanahan on Reading.]

Commentary
11.20.2014

The AFT's phony war on Time

Michael Brickman

Maybe it's because I just saw Interstellar last week, but after a weekend-long Twitter battle with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and her defenders, I

Commentary
11.20.2014

Education innovation: Lessons from Latin America

Educational systems around the world are in a critical state. Nearly everywhere, they struggle with poor-quality schools, persistent inequality, and local administrations with restricted budgets—which all combine to compromise the educational opportunities of a large portion of the student-age population.

Commentary
11.19.2014

Timed tests?

The Education Gadfly

by The Education Gadfly