Viewpoints

281 Blaming Teachers View Point More than a quarter of a century ago – 1983 -- the National Commission on Excellence in Education produced A Nation at Risk, a report whose impact still reverberates. Its principal assertion? Equity w...Read More

280 View Point   Substitute “education” for “heath”     After a late summer break (September) I return to the grind stone and, once again, I’m reminded of how similar education and health issues are.  Not only are they tw...Read More

279 View point   Looking Ahead by Looking Back   In the dog days of August, the slowest news month of the year, Education Secretary Duncan announced another new program: $9.2 million for 14 leadership improvement awards, “to develop and exp...Read More

278 View Point   Closing the Achievement Gap: Up Close and Personal   As educators across the country know only too well, for the past decade closing the achievement gap has been a Washington preoccupation, beginning with George Bush and Teddy...Read More

277 View Point   A GPS for Schools?     An old friend, former Howard County MD Superintendent, Mike Hickey, uses a powerful metaphor to good effect: imagine a GPS for schools.  It does two things precisely; it can tell y...Read More