If you haven't seen this yet, see it now: One size does not fit all. Making everything or everyone to the same standard does not pro...

In Friday's Washington Post, Mike Petrilli and Chester Finn, the current and former chiefs of the right-tilted thinky tank Thomas B. For...

There's an interesting and fairly well-balanced article in February's Forbes about Pearson, focusing on CEO John Fallon. "Every...

“If you go to any college basketball game anywhere in the nation, the court is going to be the same width, the same length and the hoop i...

My school was closed today. We're closed every year on this day because it is the weekend of our local small town festival. This is our ...

One of my largest points of disagreement with the champions of reformy stuff is on the value of standardization. For instance, lots of fo...

When it comes to amateurs dabbling in education, it's hard to beat the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings. Perhaps it's i...

It's not really news, and it has certainly been commented on a million times, but I don't think we can be reminded too many times. W...

It is hard for me to argue with fans of national standards, because we hold fundamentally different values. I'm opposed to CCSS, but u...

Race to the Top had been rather quiet as a brand until President Obama revived it in his new budget proposal. Unfortunately, the new iterati...

I don't reblog a lot of other people's stuff here, mostly because I am a small, low rung on the edublog ladder, and if you're re...

I am not a testing scientist. There are bloggers and writers and people who frequent the comments section of Diane Ravitch's blog who ca...

The school reformy landscape is wide. Toward the center you'll find "the CCSS are valuable, but must be delinked from testing."...

Sameness. Stultifying standardized straightjacketed sameness. If I had to put my finger on the one most troubling aspect of the wave of re...