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, Assistant… Read More »
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, and… Read More »
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 education… Read More »
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 would… Read More »
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 is… Read More »
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