Thoughts on Education Policy

I've finally found something with which every single education reformer can agree: the biggest problem facing our schools today is tradi...

Even if it did, I get the feeling that this is one of those questions that will never be definitively answered -- no matter how sophisticate...

I'm going to take a quick break from education to write one -- and only one -- post about the presidential election. The consensus on th...

I'm going to get back to my last post on my contentions at some point this week, but right now I have a slightly related question: why ...

A few weeks ago I wrote a post entitled " Grades Are Stupid " in response to to Pittsburgh's decision to eliminate all grades...

The local paper ran a rather bland article yesterday about the number of new teachers in local schools ("School debate value of novice...

I often criticize my program for focusing (almost exclusively) on quantitative methods -- at the expense of qualitative methods.* I'm n...

The last couple weeks have just flown by, and I somehow never found time for a blog post. I did find time, however, to read an excellent bo...

To: Mark Roosevelt, Superintendent, Pittsburgh Public Schools CC: Dr. Jerri Lynn Lippert, Executive Director of Curriculum, Instruction an...

Yesterday I expressed outrage at Pittsburgh's new grading policy and also posted the district's rationale . I'd like to take ...