National standards and tests: This time for real?
We just concluded our daylong conference??on "International Lessons about National Standards," centered around Bill Schmidt's excellent policy brief??of the same name.
We just concluded our daylong conference??on "International Lessons about National Standards," centered around Bill Schmidt's excellent policy brief??of the same name.
It's National Charter Schools Week, and the Alliance has all kinds of activities planned and news to share. Here are a couple highlights:
If you've ever hired anyone, you know that that colleague you get is nearly always quite different than the candidate you interviewed--sometimes better, sometimes worse, but always different.
If you're like me, you're generally skeptical of this Twitter business. ????It seems kind of like LoJack but for people. ????But I've come around lately, thanks in part to my colleagues here at TBFI.
It started at 9 am this morning and Jim Shelton is currently giving his remarks. Watch it live via webcast here.* *The webcast is currently experiencing technical difficulties. Stay tuned for more information. A video of the event will also be available later this week.
What would help Jim Shelton--at the Education Department's Office of Innovation and Improvement--do his job better? Clearer standards in this country.
This afternoon, Dane Linn , director of the education division for the National Governors Association and Gene Wilhoit , executive director of the Council of Chief State School O
Our conference today--on national education standards and the lessons that might be learned from other countries--is spurring some discussion.
In the midst of the school-funding battle here in the Buckeye State, it is easy to lose sight of the other major education reforms on Governor Strickland'