U.S. performance on PISA: The rest of the story
Today, in advance of this week's International Summit on the Teaching Profession, Fordham is releasing a little paper by Janie Scull and me, American Achievement in International Perspective.
Today, in advance of this week's International Summit on the Teaching Profession, Fordham is releasing a little paper by Janie Scull and me, American Achievement in International Perspective.
Let kids run their own schools. This is the reduced-to-essence message of author Susan Engel's?contribution to?today's New York Times.
??children don't need another reform imposed on them. Instead, they need to be the authors of their own education.'' ' * -Susan Engle, Author of Red Flags or Red Herrings: Predicting Who Your Child Will Become
Robert Pondiscio over at Core Knowledge wrote a very thoughtful response to my post the other day.
So, I watched Katie Couric's 60 Minutes segment about The Equity Project (TEP) charter in New York City.
Much ink has been spilled in the past week over what the pay for performance experiment in New York City's public school system means. Roland Fryer's finding that the NYC pay scheme didn't improve student achievement does not imply that differentiated pay for teachers doesn't work, however.