Engagement

I recently returned from a trip to England, where I had the opportunity to visit schools that have been involved in school improvement efforts. (I can’t make a trip to London without thinking about this Clash album, which was a staple when I was college.)  The purpose of the visit, which included Barbara Markle,...
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I am in Bangalore, India with five colleagues from the College of Education (Bob Floden, Dick Prawat, Punya Mishra, Ann Austin, and doctoral student Inese Berzina-Pitcher) to meet with officials from the Azim Premji Foundation and Azim Premji University. Azim Premji is the founder and CEO of Wipro, one of India’s largest technology companies,...
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A week and a half ago I posted about the teacher education program negotiated rulemaking process going on at the U.S. Department of Education.  As I wrote at the time, the panel appointed by the Secretary of Education was having trouble coming to consensus on the regulations the Department should promulgate to evaluate teacher...
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Having taught educational policy throughout most of my career as a faculty member, I would often start the course with the old saying, “Policy is like sausage – you don’t want to see either being made.”  Just as most of us would not like to watch the sausage making process, for fear that we...
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As I described in my last post, I returned last week from my first visit to China, where we have a partnership with our colleagues in the College of Education at Southwest University (SWU) in Chongqing.  As part of the trip, we visited a school not far from the Southwest campus.  Its English name...
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