Our recent history of school improvement is replete with examples of great ideas that have been coopted by legislators, regulators and even some school administrators. They turn each new suggestion…
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If we looked at an 8mm home movie to view a common tradition of core values from the previous century, we might find a dinner table scene as a family…
At the recent Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE) meeting held in Boston one of the workshop topics was the future of accreditation. A conversation that I hope…
Diane Ravitch’s recent decision to come out against the Common Core Standards is a welcomed voice. Describing her stance until now as being an agnostic, neither for or against, when…
Governor Christie of New Jersey in his recent inaugural address touted longer school days and a longer school year as the center piece of his second term, educational platform. I…
Zager and Evans in their 1969 one-hit wonder In the Year 2525 used 1010-year intervals in the verses of the song to give disturbing predictions for each selected year. The…
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…
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…
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