Usually, we claim to have little use for people who are all talk. We mock second-guessers and those Monday-morning quarterbacks who tell others what they should have done. Like most people I know, I’ve always been most impressed by those who do things. Build things. Repair things. Whether we’re talking about fixing a car or teaching algebra, what matters is taking ...

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I recently caught up with Mary Ann Wolf, PhD, Elizabeth Bobst and Nancy Mangum to discuss some of the key takeaways of their new book, Leading Personalized and Digital Learning: A Framework for Implementing School Change. The authors offer guidance for principals and other school leaders who are aiming to leverage the power of technology to help make student-centered learning ...

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The state of New Jersey is returning to the city of Newark the power to run its school system. Chris Cerf, who served as state superintendent of New Jersey and then district superintendent of Newark, joins Paul Peterson to talk about the changes that have taken place in the Newark school district and what lies ahead. Last year, EdNext published “Continuing Change in Newar...

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Massachusetts’s test scores are now the best in the nation. The scores first began to rise in the 1990s after the state enacted major reforms to its education system. How were state leaders able to pull this off? On December 7, 2017 from 3–5 p.m., Fordham hosts a discussion with David Driscoll, the man behind many of the reforms and the author of a new book, Commitment a...

“We are so proud that our students are yet again leading the nation in AP scores and breaking all-time records. . . . Apples to apples, student to student, across the country, Massachusetts students are at the top, as I want them to be.” —Maura Healey, Massachusetts Governor “This refinement strengthens the accuracy of our scoring. . . . In fact, AP sta...