Nicole Grimes

The November issue of the International Schools Journal featured an article by Stefanos Gialamas, President of the American School of Athens and his colleague Peggy Pelonis that focused on the increased competition…

I was recently drawn to an article that appeared in Education Week (October 9, 2013) reporting on a global study that identified promising practices in top-scoring nations. The study conducted…

Two commentaries in the October 30, 2013 issue of Education Week caught my attention. Assistant professors Jack Schneider and Anil Nathan of Holy Cross in Worchester, Massachusetts and Craig Hochbein…

MSA Team Chair & High School Principal at the American School of Kuwait Originally posted on Behind the Closed Door www.coetail.com/tarawaudby On a recent accreditation trip that I chaired, late one evening…

The current government lockdown has caused all Americans to again reflect on the value that government services play in our lives. Those in public education chose their careers knowing that…

The September 18th issue of Education Week carried a front page article about the brewing controversy over testing in California where the state has moved to suspend most of its…

I began my teaching career before the dawn of educational technology. My “hardware” was an overhead projector and my software consisted of filmstrips and cassettes. But over the course of…

As Congress continues to debate the future of NCLB and public schools in America develop transition strategies for new accountability requirements, the continuing truth of an old story comes to…

According to the U.S. Census Bureau 79 million students ages 3 and older will be heading back to school this September. Those schools will remain very familiar to the almost…

There has been a sea change within the education profession over the last four decades. The change is in the loss of the belief that evaluating the work of schools,…