In this week’s podcast, Joel Rose of New Classrooms joins Mike Petrilli to discuss how technology makes “differentiation” doable, non-cognitive skills under ESSA, and the future of Success Academies in New York City. In the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how teacher reforms have affected teacher effectiveness.
By Jamie Davies O’Leary
If you’re at all interested in Washington, D.C. schools, you should read this excellent report by David Osborne. It serves as a quick and comprehensive history lesson on the city’s last two decades of reform.
Talk is cheap.For decades, elected officials, education leaders, and others have consumed much oxygen talking about the challenges facing our nation from countries doing a much better job developing their academic talent.Despite this the reality is that we have largely failed to address this concern as many of our most talented children are being overlooked and uncultivated.
