Viewpoints

268 -- National Standards, déjà vu All over Again, Part 2   View Point     The difficulty in starting the Common Core Standards initiative makes the point. It is an arduous task. Indeed, writing in the current issue of Nat...Read More

267 -- National Standards, déjà vu All Over Again, part 1 View point     Nearly lost in the mists of time is the “second” National Education Summit, jointly convened by IBM, NGA and ECS at the IBM Palisades conference center...Read More

266 – Gawande is at it Again   View Point     Atul Gawande –surgeon, bestselling author, New Yorker staff writer and thoughtful commentator par excellence – is at it again. He has written another book –The Checklist Mani...Read More

265 – Making a List and Checking it Thrice   Viewpoint     My recent column on books (fifteen favorites) got such a strong response that I’m throwing caution to the wind and listing 21 favorite movies, to wit:   ·  ...Read More

264 --  Making a List and Checking It Twice   View Point     December is list-making month in my household – lists before Christmas for presents and lists before New Year’s for resolutions: (typically eat less and exerci...Read More