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Looking Back, Looking Forward
by Nancy Walser on January 7, 2010
Volume 1, No. 1--the first-ever issue of the Harvard Education Letter--looks older than its 25 years. The well-thumbed issue we keep in our makeshift archive (a plastic three-ring binder) is slightly tattered, the words worn where the issue was folded in three for mailing. All three holes in its three-hole punch are ripped.
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“Platooning” and the Industrial Model of Schooling
by David Marshak on November 24, 2009
"Platooning" is another example of the intensification of the factory model of schooling which ignores most of what we've learned from scientific psychology about how human beings learn and grow.
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"Platooning" Touches a Nerve
by Lucy Hood on November 12, 2009
Reaction to my story on efforts to departmentalize elementary education around the country has come fast and furious since it was published in this month's Harvard Education Letter.
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Why School Boards Fail to Perform
by Gene I. Maeroff on October 22, 2009
School boards are more or less invisible partners in education reform. Nancy Walser correctly notes that the role that school boards can play in school improvement tends to get overlooked. On the other hand, many boards fail to perform in the high-functioning manner of those that she studied.
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Know What You’re Doing
by Karin Chenoweth on September 28, 2009
Great consternation has greeted Secretary Arne Duncan's stated goal of turning around 5,000 of the country's lowest-performing schools over the next five years.
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The Need for a Moratorium on High-stakes Testing
by David C. Berliner on September 14, 2009
There is a growing movement in the US to abandon high-stakes tests because they don't work as anticipated and are costly. I agree, but hope that we don't throw out the need for accountability along with the high-stakes bathwater.
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The Race to the Top
by Theodore Hershberg and Claire Robertson-Kraft on August 4, 2009
The U.S. Department of Education's proposed guidelines for awarding Race to the Top grants communicate a powerful message. States barring the use of student data in decisions about teacher and principal evaluation will not be eligible for funds.
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“What Greater Investment Can We Make?” Special Education and the Stimulus
by David Gordon on July 21, 2009
"Of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that Congress approved in February, nearly $100 billion is targeted to education, including hefty one-time increases of $10 billion and $11.3 billion for IDEA (special education) and Title I (high-poverty), respectively."
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Opening Doors to Postsecondary Education for More Students
by Andrea Venezia on July 8, 2009
"With education headlines about my home state of California reading along the lines of, "LA Unified School District Cancels Bulk of Summer School Programs," (Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2009), it is inspiring to read headlines coming out of Colorado such as, "Bill Helps High Schoolers Go to College" (INDenver Times, April 13, 2009). Given the budget crises in states across the country, it is exciting that Colorado's policymakers are taking a forward-thinking view that paying a little extra now could have large pay-offs down the road."
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Not by Salaries Alone
by Susan Moore Johnson on June 11, 2009
The Equity Project, a new school in New York City, garnered front-page attention in The New York Times recently by hiring eight teachers at an annual salary of $125,000 each. This will be 'a test,' the journalist asserted, of whether high salaries will attract 'superb teachers' and whether superb teachers will solve the problems of failing public schools.
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