The Superintendent's Chair
Personal reflections about education as seen from the Superintendent's chair.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Can we see the future of education?
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Frederick Hess recently was part of a panel discussion at The Aspen Institute . (Hess' part of the program starts at about 1:12:00.) He ...
Monday, October 29, 2012
What should we teach?
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We have the Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations. We have the High School Content Expectations. We have the new Common Core. And ...
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The Giants Win the World Series!
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I was driving between meetings today and happened to tune into sports radio. I was surprised by what I heard. It appears that after one ga...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Comparing bottoms (and tops)
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Too much time has been spent by the state in trying to defend its new system of classifying schools and by districts trying to argue that th...
Friday, October 19, 2012
Let's look at the data
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Mike Flanagan, Michigan's State Superintendent of Public Education, has decided to defend a system that is indefensible. His technique i...
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Do numbers lie?
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My wife and I went to see the movie " Trouble With the Curve. " Clint Eastwood plays Gus, an irascible old baseball scout who beli...
Friday, October 12, 2012
Don't miss your life!
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As I stood watching the homecoming parade of Novi High School today, I saw parents with the children. They were smiling and laughing. Childr...
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