In the halls of Congress and on the presidential campaign trail, a debate is raging over which set of economic proposals to pursue in order to rebuild the national economy. At the same time, K-12 education reformers are engaged in their own frantic search for the right recipe(s) that can unlock the full power of teaching and learning. But rarely do we acknowledge that one individual stands, improbably, at the center of both debates – John Maynard Keynes.
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The (Keynesian) Economics of School Choice
Categories: Assessment, Equity, Learning, Organizational Change
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2 CommentsThe X Factor of School Reform
In case you missed it, there was a great piece in yesterday’s New York Times, the core message of which has a lot of relevance for those of us who, barely a week removed from not one but two major reports of misleading test data being used to evaluate schools and school districts, continue to [...]
Categories: Assessment, Learning, Organizational Change
Tags: Assessment, data, economics, evaluation, New York Times
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