It is appalling that 23,000 infants died in the United States in 2014 (and likely similar numbers in the years since). Those deaths compute to an infant mortality rate of…
As educators, we are expected to provide leadership for students. By virtue of licensure and community expectations, we are held to a higher standard of moral, ethical, and behavioral leadership. But on…
Most educators are keenly aware of the public and highly visible markers for education performance. We certainly are used to hearing about the performance of various groups of students on state…
A few years ago, I participated in a community group that was meeting with a candidate hoping to be the superintendent of a 50,000-student school district. Since most in the community…
Chief State School Officers and city superintendents often feel out gunned when advocating for children in the money driven world of political lobbying. Of the $3.45 billion spent lobbying in the…
Almost anyone familiar with international education comparisons knows that teachers in the United States do not enjoy the same status as teachers in other industrialized nations. This lack of status and…
In 1867, the original US Department of Education was created “to collect information on schools and teaching that would help the states establish effective school systems”.[1] I suggest that we go…
It is a little disappointing that most of the recent strategies to improve education in the United States do not utilize the “nuclear energy” that could power positive change. We often…
In an earlier post, I said that technology had not met its potential to positively transform education. We have not used all the new tools now available and we have not…
Compared to other areas of our daily life, the American education enterprise has not been dramatically changed by an infusion of technology. There certainly have been large purchases, but the degree of…