Viewpoints

Tony Wagner’s new book, The Global Achievement Gap, represents the educational equivalent of Tom Friedman’s wakeup call, The World is Flat.  Like Friedman, Wagner draws insight from interviews, observations, and data as he builds a case, not just for...Read More

Next week, we begin again. The leadership team convenes, new teachers enter an induction academy, websites are refreshed for parents, and the flywheel turns. In spite of the tasks list that grows daily, I am spending this week with leaders from schoo...Read More

Anchoring the roadway below Pike’s Peak, Colorado Springs offers a space where today’s Olympians train with strength, speed, agility, and grace in anticipation of Beijing. Nearby, prairie falcons wheel above an ochre rockscape, contemplating the huma...Read More

  I am captivated by commercials and the messages that get communicated through them. The recent Boeing commercials speak to me and I went on a search to find out why. My search led to a recent article in Business Management about James McNerney, CE...Read More

It’s the fourth of July. I just consigned the Viewpoint I planned to post to a folder, perhaps it will fit better on another day.  Early this morning, I watered my vegetable garden, and picked a few of the zinnias I plant each year in memory of my gr...Read More