Latest Articles
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Tell the Truth About Colleges
Making public information about how well colleges are educating their students would help introduce the concept of value into higher education for the first time
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Educating Urban America
A reveiw of new books on school reform by journalists Jay Mathews, Paul Tough, and David Whitman
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The Key to Teacher Reform in the District of Columbia: Better Evaluations
Testimony before the DC City Council on Michelle Rhee’s controversial new teacher evaluation system
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Rewriting Accountability Under the No Child Left Behind Act
A reauthorized No Child Left Behind Act needs to measure school performance on the basis of student growth, not just student proficiency
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Teacher Evaluation and Teacher Quality
Originally published in Voices in Urban Education with co-author Robert Rothman. The troubled state of teacher evaluation is a glaring and largely neglected problem in public education, one with consequences that extend far beyond the current debate over performance pay. Because teacher evaluations are at the center of the educational enterprise—the quality of teaching in the…
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US Education: Still at Risk
A quarter century ago, an explosive federal report launched a national crusade to fix American education. There’s still much work to be done.
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Using Test Scores in Teacher Evaluations is Tricky
Using student test scores to evaluate teachers is harder than it seems
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Rush to Judgment: Teacher Evaluation in Public Education
Teacher evaluation is the missing link in the teacher reform movement
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Why We Need National Standards and Tests
A take on Rep. George Miller’s ill-fated attempt to rewrite the No Child Left Behind Act in 2007