The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation (Jossey-Bass Education Series) In this insightful look at school reform, Robert Evans examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process. [...] Read more »
Diane Ravitch On School Reform, Part 1
From NYU’s Radical Film and Lecture Series held on 3/26/10 full video can be found at www.rfls.blip.tv description: What type of School Reform do we really want? A public discussion featuring: Diane Ravitch — Author of over twenty books, former Assistant Secretary of Education under President George HW Bush, and currently research professor of education [...] Read more »
A Teacher’s Perspective On School Reform
When people talk about problems with our schools, I hear a lot of blame: blaming, teachers, blaming parents, blaming kids. And when they talk about how to reform schools, I hear a lot of “get tough” measures: get tough on schools, get tough on teachers, get tough on kids. What I don’t hear are the [...] Read more »
The Importance of Education Reform
President Obama speaks about the critical need for education reform and discusses what his Administration has done to raise standards and encourage excellence during a speech to the Urban League. July 29, 2010. Read more »
How To Help A New Round Of Education Reform Education Overhaul
Described as intense, “national long-term Education Reform and Development Plan “for public comment ended more than a month, the Ministry of Education has come up with the 17 reform educational system’s focus began to parts of the subordinates to seek reform of the pilot of the university. Innovation Talent Training model, balanced development of compulsory [...] Read more »
School Reform is Hot Topic for Philadelphia Schools
Philadelphia Schools are in dire need of reform. In an effort to achieve this goal, two committees, The Right to Education Task Force and The School Reform Commission, have been formed to focus on improving the situation for all Philadelphia Schools students. A new mission statement, a Declaration of Education, an anti-truancy effort, and summer [...] Read more »
Pittsburgh High School Reform Task Force
The High School Reform Task Force Superintendent Mark Roosevelt announced the creation of the Pittsburgh Public Schools High School Reform Task Force. The High School Reform Task Force, which consists of leaders of both secondary and higher education, private foundations and businesses, experts in workforce development, parents, and members of the community will carefully examine [...] Read more »
Teachers are the key to education reform
The Director General National Teachers Institute (NTI), Dr. Aminu Ladan Sharehu has said that all education reform initiatives and resources put together would amount to nothing without the expertise of a crop of adequate trained and well-motivated teaching force. He stated on the flag-off of the induction course for participation in the second Batch of [...] Read more »
Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform Reviews
Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk has sounded a millennial tone, the actual reforms have been gradual and incremental. Tinkering toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension between Americans’ faith in education [...] Read more »
Blogging for Education Reform
November 22 was named a National Day of Blogging for Real Education Reform, sparking much online conversation and debate on the current hot-topic of Education Reform. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan joined the conversation himself, and assured bloggers that the U.S. Department of Education has been listening to their ideas and suggestions. Duncan said that [...] Read more »