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deftly walking the line between fire-eating sideshow attraction and sex symbol for the intelligentsia.
she's also a highly skilled assassin, er, hack writer, covering business and pleasure for a variety of magazines and web sites across the land. (her husband insists she note that one of those publications is playboy).
be a better writer: power tools for young writers, co-written with the aforementioned husband, won the independent publishers association gold medal for teen/young-adult nonfiction.
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professional reform
a path to better policy in education
10.29.07
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steve peha and i worked on this together
For all the controversy surrounding education these days, most people agree that our schools continue to need significant improvement. This isn’t to say we haven’t been working on the problem. But after years of reform, we’re still unclear about whether our current approach is producing the results we require.
This doesn’t mean current reforms should be abandoned. Testing and standards have an important role to play. But it’s time to look beyond these measures to policies and programs that more directly affect the quality of teaching, learning, and leadership in our schools.
Most current reform is structural. It seeks to change the structure of school with new curriculum, new tests, new schedules, and so on. But structural reform doesn’t do much to change how children learn, how teachers teach, and how administrators lead. We can develop new tests and new curriculum, put a laptop on every desk, send our kids to cl...
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