Viewpoints

We are all familiar with both the popular and academic concepts of inputs and outputs, or resources and results.  They make intuitive sense in any field from farming to manufacturing to medicine to education.  A farmer takes raw materials – land, wat...Read More

Writing nearly one year ago I titled my 194th View Point, Putting the “E” back in HEW.  Lo and behold, it holds up except in one particular: I assumed that no one would take such an idea seriously. Then, surprise of surprises, an e-mail graced my in-...Read More

By now the verdict is unanimous: excellent teaching is the key to excellent education. But I’m not clear in my own mind what this means, precisely.  Does excellent teaching produce excellent students or does it require excellent students to begin wit...Read More

The holy grail of lasting reform is technology; hundreds of years ago it was Guttenberg’s printing press (which Jan Comenius, the “Great Didactic,” made operational with the invention of the text book) which laid the foundation for mass education; to...Read More

In less than six months there will be a new president-elect who (after celebrating a hard-won victory) will begin the process of selecting a cabinet, including a new Secretary of Education. At the same time a new Congress (veto-proof is my guess) wil...Read More