Suggestions for Improving Teacher Evaluation

In this Harvard Educational Review article, Heather Hill (Harvard University) and Pam Grossman (Stanford University) raise three concerns about recent state and district innovations in teacher evaluation. First, they believe most classroom observation instruments are generic and don’t focus on important content-specific aspects of teaching. Second, they say evaluations are mostly done by generalists…

Is the day of reckoning upon us?

By Kathleen Porter-Magee / August 8, 2013

Thomas Fordham Institute

Education Gadfly

On Wednesday, New York officials released results from the state’s first administration of the new, more difficult, Common Core–aligned tests. As officials warned—and as everyone knew—the results were low; shockingly low in some instances. Last year, 47 percent of New York students scored at or…

Moving from Race-Based to Class-Based Affirmative Action

In this New York Times column, David Brooks says the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision (Fisher v. University of Texas) is “another small signal that the era of explicitly race-based affirmative action is coming to an end.” Why? Brooks believes it’s because three things have changed:

• Economic inequality is now more important than race as a source of…

Schools that Practice Learning-Literacy

Many months ago I spoke at a leadership conference in Vancouver. When the event was over, officials with…

Should We Teach “Other People’s Kids” Differently?

by Chris Lehman

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Common Core Test Results

Source: Best Education Degrees

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Why Business Should be A Core Curriculum in all High Schools

by Alice Jenkins

In an era where 53% of college graduates are jobless or underemployed future graduates have little to look forward to with all of the education and skills they have acquired besides sitting in front of a computer and applying to low level jobs on craigslist. These people…

When I read that today was the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, I was reminded of the novel, The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka.  This Pen Faulkner award winner follows the lives of Japanese women from their journey to San Francisco to become "picture brides" for strangers, to the internment of Japanese-Americans at the onset of World War II.

A friend and I read this book for…

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