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Testing, Testing
by Forum Convener George Wood |
 In the Dec. 14 issue of The New Yorker, physician Atul Gawande takes on one of the persistent critiques of the current health care debate:
The history that Gawande is referring to is that of the federal agricultural extension agency, where multiple small scale 'experiments' helped transform the productivity of farming. It's a history that could inform federal policy in education as well. |
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Poor Schools or Poor Kids?
by Joe Wilson and Forum Convener Pedro Noguera |
 published in Education Next - Winter 2010
Since the run-up to the 2008 election, the Democratic Party has been home to two prominent and very different reform wings. One, spearheaded by the group Democrats for Education Reform and notable school-district chiefs like New York's Joel Klein and Washington, D.C.'s Michelle Rhee, is the Education Equality Project (EEP). The other, A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education (BBA), is a coalition of education scholars and Democratic thinkers, including Duke University's Helen Ladd, former president of Columbia University's Teachers College Arthur Levine, and New York University professor Pedro Noguera. The Education Equality Project champions accountability, pay reform, and school choice, while the Broader, Bolder coalition insists we must attend to health care, preschool, and parenting skills if students are to succeed in school. The Obama administration must negotiate this split in pursuing education reform; indeed, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was the only individual to serve as a founding member of both groups. In this forum, president of Democrats for Education Reform Joe Williams speaks for the Education Equality Project and Pedro Noguera offers the Broader, Bolder perspective on improving K-12 schooling, the early record of the Obama administration, and the challenges that lie ahead. |
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CES Searches for an Executive Director
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| The Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) seeks an Executive Director who can work with the Board of Directors to chart the Coalition's future direction. We are searching for an individual with knowledge of CES's 25-year history and a willingness to work collaboratively to extend and expand that legacy. The national office will be located on the East Coast. The position commences no later than July 1, 2010. Salary will be competitive and commensurate with experience. Individuals are invited to submit resumes as well as a short paper discussing how CES could take the ideas of progressive education and Ted Sizer and move them forward in the current national education context. |