Business and Education Management Principles Intersect

There are business leaders and researchers who talk about building organizational culture around shared vision and values, around learning and personal growth. If we could get more of this type of bus...

Petrilli: Everyone should get out of everyone else’s business

I just wrote a long post for my EdWeek blog about National School Choice Week. There were a few tangential items I wanted to address that didn’t fit into that post. I already posted a short piec...

Teacher Driven Change on Display at Innovation Expo

I was blown away by the presenters who described how their union-based grants spurred partnerships among teachers, administrators, parents, businesses, community organizations and universities....

In Search of Meg Whitman and Charter School Transparency

Meg Whitman brings great organizational management experience to the Summit Public Schools Board of Directors - or at least, I assume she would, but I couldn't find any meeting minutes showing she att...

Charter Schools and Segregation

The concept of choice is hard to argue with - everyone likes choice, and it shouldn't only be reserved for the wealthy; the execution of that idea in policy is a challenging proposition fraught with r...

Does Political “Cover” Produce Effective Policy?

We don't go into teaching to raise test scores; we go into teaching to promote a much wider variety of skills that are poorly measured by tests, if they're measured at all....

American Myopia in Social Policy

Americans who decry paying more in taxes that would go to help "those people" need to recognize that, for purely selfish reasons, they should actually pay up....

The One and Only Larry Ferlazzo?

His incredible output of work, while teaching full-time, leads many observers to ask: can there really be only one Larry Ferlazzo?...

Riding with Paul Kelly, “Spring and Fall”

Kelly manages to write universal truths with a clever selection of particulars, and fresh images that avoid clichés of both lyric and thought....

State Policies Give California Window of Opportunity

The continuity in state leadership for education means California likely has a chance to see the effects of recent policy changes playing out over a longer time frame, with less disruption....

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