Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to t...
A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act as they did. A historian customarily displays a certain diffidence about trying to influence events, knowing that...
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
