In the June issue, I noted that the outcome for Texas public education in the recently completed regular and special legislative sessions could have been much worse, and this includes the state education budget, but there is much more to be done and said on this issue, and I suspect that all we did in […]
Cultural Illiteracy
The great teachers love what they’re teaching, and you can’t love something you don’t know anymore than you can love someone you don’t know.–David McCullough David McCullough is of course a great American story teller, and his recent books on American history and biography–1776, John Adams, Truman–are classics. And I look forward to reading his […]
It’s Almost Over
Although Yogi would caution me that “it ain’t over ’til it’s over”, as we enter the last week of the special session of the 82nd Texas Legislature, it appears that our education reform coalition has successfully achieved its top priority for the session, which was the defense of HB 3, the comprehensive public school accountability […]
Texas Graduation Standards At Risk
The current Texas legislative session is largely about the budget crisis, and the media reports have particularly sensationalized the potential cuts in public education funding, but if one looks more closely, there is a larger threat in public education policy, one that would undermine much of the progress we have made in standards and accountability. […]
An Education Manifesto
Recently a distinguished group of public school superintendents around the country signed off on an essay which appeared in many major newspapers. It is an important statement of support for what must be the next phase of education reform, the management of human resources. If you didn’t see it in your local paper, I urge […]
The Texas School Rating Issue
I have been asked by quite a few people lately about recent media reports on the Texas public school ratings and, in particular, the controversy over the “Texas Projection Measure” and its role in the recent significant improvement in the ratings. To explain this issue as concisely as possible, I can’t improve on the article […]
The Democrat Education Crack-Up
It has been both amusing and instructive to watch the disintegrating nexus between the Democratic Party and one of its staunchest and most reliable constituencies, the teachers unions, over the reform of public education around the country. When liberal columnist Leonard Pitts can write this–“Enough. It is time teachers embraced accountability. Time parents, students and […]
Education Potpourri
A few odds and ends on the education front: **As difficult as it might sometimes be to come to the defense of the Texas State Board of Education, I must do so in the case of the recent revision of the social studies standards, particularly as it pertains to the history textbooks. Yes, some of […]
Back to the Future?
I don’t often disagree with George Will, but I must take issue with parts of his recent essay (“Unlike China, U. S. has a future rooted in the past”) that closes with the following: “While China increasingly invests in its future, America increasingly invests in its past, the elderly…………America’s destiny is demographic, and therefore is […]
Education Reform Update
I hope at least my Texas readers will be interested in an update on the efforts by many of us to advance standards and accountability based reforms in Texas K-12 education. We made good progress on our objectives during the 82nd Texas Legislature this spring and are hard at work in assisting with the implementation […]
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