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Using Rewards in the Classroom: Short-Term Crutch or Long-Term Strategy?
Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching’s two-week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration’s education plan –...
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Let’s End the Battle of the Edu-Tribes
(This article also appeared in the Huffington Post.) There’s a revolution underway – and no, I don’t mean in Egypt or Tunisia. I mean the growing, hopeful, tech-savvy, solution-oriented tribe of...
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Is School Renovation The Change We Seek?
OK, I realize I’m late to the game – I was in China last week when President Obama first outlined his jobs proposal to a joint session of Congress. But I’m back now, and I just read it, and as I look...
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Require kids to stay in school? Not so fast…
Anytime you hear government officials mandating new behaviors to a broad swath of the population, that mandate is likely to run afoul of the First Amendment. And so it is with President Obama’s...
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The Politics of Education – Dueling Budgets
This weekend, I was on CNN to speak about President Obama’s and Representative Ryan’s dueling budget proposals, and asked to comment on which of the two lighted the surer path to true education reform....
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Who We Are, And Who We Aspire to Be
It has been four years — when the promise of an Obama presidency was still just a promise — since I have felt as inspired as I felt tonight, watching Michelle Obama, as First Lady, remind us of who we...
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The World is . . . a Sisyphean Hill of Policy Smackdowns?
As a former teacher with a MBA, I read a lot of “business books.” And of the titles I’ve read over the past few years, none have characterized the future of public education more presciently than...
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OK, Obama Won. Now What?
It’s official. Barack Hussein Obama has been re-elected. Now what? When it comes to public education, let’s start by recognizing that Race to the Top was well-intentioned — and ultimately out of step...
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“Standardization” is not a dirty word
The reviews are in — in 2013, inequality is out, and equality is in. “Each time we gather to inaugurate a president,” President Obama began on Monday morning, “we bear witness to the enduring strength...
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