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Teaching beyond the tests
Kevin Jennings held his head in his hands as he listened to a high school principal discussing the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) before a crowd at the Harvard Graduate School of...
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Like-minded
Three of the nation’s leading advocates for standards-based education reform — former Washington, D.C., chancellor of schools Michelle Rhee, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, and former Clinton White...
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Heading for Congress
The campaign’s over. Time to govern. The differences between the black-and-white rigors of an election campaign and the nuanced work of being an effective lawmaker were brought home to two dozen...
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Duncan urges experiments in education
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan would like to see reform of the nation’s public educational system, and he urged administrators, educators, politicians, and parents to work together to...
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Education reform, by the numbers
“I make numbers talk,” Richard Bowman likes to say when describing his new profession. But he isn’t in finance or economics, he’s in education policy, and he hopes to use his analytic expertise to...
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Room for improvement in ed policy
While the issue of education may have been largely missing from presidential campaign rhetoric, supplanted by language aimed at calming fears about the economy, many polls suggested it was still a top...
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Some child, left behind?
With congressional Republicans poised to introduce legislation to reauthorize and overhaul No Child Left Behind policies in the coming days, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 urged lawmakers...
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