February 2012
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Teacher accountability and K12 innovation are on a...
That was the thought on my mind as I read coverage of the contested release of 18,000 data reports on New York City teachers. The reports, built on value-added assessments that gauge teachers’ impact based on their students’ predicted performance, highlight both the wide variation in teacher effectiveness and the painfully obvious limitations of our existing evaluation systems.
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"Financial capability" has more than a branding...
On Sunday the Miami Herald published an op-ed I wrote under the name of my current boss, CEO of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). It reflects my frustration with how schools teach financial capability and my hopes for how we might change things for the better. You can read it here or I’ve republished it below, with permission from NFTE.
Teaching young people to think like...
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"The Death of the Cyberflâneur": Misplaced grief...
You’re probably familiar on some level with the idea of the “flâneur”: the urban wanderer, attuned to the rhythms of the streets, both one with and set apart from the crowds he inhabits. The term dates from Haussmann-era Paris, when modernity ignited a churning cityscape of steam engines and carriages, dandies and factory workers. Many of the urban manners we now take for...
