Published Articles & Media
A Missed Opportunity for Common Core
Common Core supporters should be showcasing lessons that represent a sharp break with the skills-driven, all-texts-are-created-equal approach that has come to dominate too many classrooms.
Conscious Incompetence: New Ed-School Grads are Unprepared to Teach — and We Seem Fine With That
Ask a teacher about his or her first year in the classroom and you’ll hear, either with a smile or a shudder, how “nothing prepared me for my first year as a teacher.”
GPAs, SATs, and TMI?
Our elite universities, should they wish, could end epic oversharing, help student writing, and improve college readiness in one fell swoop.
‘No Excuses’ Kids Go to College
Will high-flying charters see their low-income students graduate?
Edutopia: Inside George Lucas’ Quixotic Plan to Save America’s Schools
It was just about a year ago that I first started paying attention to Edutopia. They’ve been around for years, but they weren’t on my radar screen. Then suddenly, they wouldn’t stay off it. You couldn’t listen to the radio without hearing their ubiquitous underwriting credit on NPR, with its sublimely confident tagline “What Works in Public Education.”
