Christopher A. Lizotte of the University of Washington and Dan Cohen published an interesting research paper about how market-driven policies have been promoted and sold....
The great Finnish scholar Pasi Sahlberg coined the term GERM to represent the Global Education Reform Movement. GERM is the advance of markets, standardization, choice,...
Nancy Bailey reports on Betsy DeVos’ trip to Europe and what she learned: Nothing. She returned convinced that American education sucks, which is what she...
Jack Hassard, professor of science education, assesses creeping authoritarianism and the growing resistance to it among educators. “The authoritarianism of standardization has spread harm...
Pasi Sahlberg, the great Finnish educator, has accepted a major research post at the well-funded Gonski Institute of Education in Australia. He will have...
The testing monster is coming for our children. Helge Wasmuth of Mercy College in New York writes here about the full-steam-ahead plan for international testing...
Phil Cullen of Australia is a zealous critic of his nation’s national testing and accountability regime. He wrote about this important news from New Zealand,...