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Will We Do What it Takes to Improve Public Eduication?
Want to imagine a different path to improving public education in this country? Take my 15-minute challenge.
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What Would Theo Do?
I’m a lifelong Red Sox fan, so as this year’s trading deadline approaches, I’m wondering once again what Theo Epstein, the GM of my beloved Boston Red Sox, will do to improve his team’s chances of...
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Privatization or Public-ization?
There’s a lot of talk these days about the growing support for a privatization of America’s public school system, and what it augurs over the long haul. Typically, that’s as far as the conversation...
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Education and… National Security
I see that President Obama listed education as a core aspect of his overall National Security Strategy. It reminds me of a great piece my former boss and mentor Charles Haynes wrote less than three...
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Is It Really All About the Benjamins?
As both a former teacher and a MBA, I’m struck these days by two things: first, the ubiquity of “business thinking” in today’s education reform strategies; and second, the complete absence of the sort...
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Are Parent Trigger Laws a Good Idea?
It’s hard not to feel excited for the group of parents who successfully took over their California community’s school, and who now are dreaming of bigger things. “Our children will now get the...
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What does it mean to be prepared?
I just spent three days at a wonderful independent school in Columbia, South Carolina. The students there are the types of young people you want to meet and hand over the keys of the world to — smart,...
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Are We Finally Ending the Battle of the Edu-Tribes?
Anyone who has spent time during the last decade or so working for the betterment of American public education will tell you the same thing: It’s ugly out there, and you’re going to need to pick a...
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This is the end of education (& the future of learning)
Or, more specifically, this is a video about a conversation of those issues. It features yours truly, but also Jaime Casap, the head of education at Google, and a number of other great educators in...
View ArticleThe Most Famous Nursery Schools in the World — And What They Can Teach Us
Reggio Emilia, a mid-sized city that sits roughly halfway between Milan and Bologna, is not your grandmother’s Italy. For starters, it’s more hardscrabble than picturesque -- heavily graffitied, with...
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