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What are the real lessons from international comparisons of education systems?
The testing of 15 year olds done every three years by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is at the heart of the...
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100 percent of French 3 year olds in pre-K. Only 51 percent in the US. Almost...
President Obama’s allies at the Center for American Progress are pumping his early childhood initiative. And they should. We do a good job in the U.S> educating well-off kids, but most poor kids...
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The fantasies driving school reform: A primer for education graduates –...
Valerie Strauss has provided (here on her blog, The Answer Sheet) a transcript of a graduation speech by Richard Rothstein, a deeply knowledgeable and trustworthy education commentator. Here are some...
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What if Finland’s great teachers taught in New Hampshire?
Respected Finnish education strategist Pasi Sahlberg talks about what states should do to support good teaching. How does that compare to what we do in New Hampshire? Continue reading →
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The unions make public schools bad, right? Actually, that’s not what the data...
Michael Marder is physics prof at the University of Texas at Austin, and Co-Director of UTeach (“We prepare teachers. They change the world.”). He’s a scientist who has found communicative ways to...
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We do a lot good in American education but why is opportunity to learn...
States like Massachusetts, Texas and many New Hampshire schools demonstrate that we do know how to provide all our kids an "opportunity to learn," but nationally, our education system is unreliable....
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Schooling Ourselves in an Unequal America – NYTimes
Here is a very useful NYT Opinionator post summarizing American education issues in a global context – in a balanced and accurate way. For some reason, it goes off the rails into never-never land when...
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Day 2 of the Union Leader series on the Common Core: how do you know 12 + 7 =...
Today's installment of the Union Leader's continuing series on the Common Core makes clear what the debate is all about: opponents see the Common Core as an extension of a failed American education...
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Here are two useful reviews of the PISA data released today
We've seen a move in recent months to pre-reject the latest results of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). However, I have...
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Watch this 5 minute video from the AFT about what PISA actually tells us....
There’s a lot of effort this year to discount the PISA results, but here’s a great, constructive interpretation of what PISA actually tells us.Filed under: International Comparison
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Yesterday’s PISA results stimulate a real discussion about the role of...
Yesterday's PISA results will be the subject of a lot of debate and analysis but one exchange illustrates how rich the discussion can become when it goes beyond positional warfare: Pasi Sahlberg,...
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