[Photo by darkmatter] Keeping with Education Futures’ annual tradition, I released five predictions for global education in 2009 early last year. How did I do? Much better than my predictions for 2008! Let’s look: No Child Left Behind won’t get left behind. Contrary to all the data that shows that NCLB is a miserable failure, [...]
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2009 in review: Results from the annual prediction game
The Education Futures timeline of education
Education Futures celebrates its first five years of exploring new futures in human capital development with a timeline of the history of education from 1657-2045. This timeline provides not only a glimpse into modern education, but plots out a plausible future history for human capital development. The future history presented is intended to be edgy, [...]
Friedman: U.S. education system endangering global competitiveness
New York times columnist Tom Friedman speaks out: A Washington lawyer friend recently told me about layoffs at his firm. I asked him who was getting axed. He said it was interesting: lawyers who were used to just showing up and having work handed to them were the first to go because with the bursting [...]
The impact of NCLB in the workplace
This year, Minnesota 2020 has released some exciting critiques of the state of education in Minnesota and nationally. And, by “exciting,” I mean sometimes scathing critiques … with a glimmer of hope. At the top of their hit list (and rightfully so) is No Child Left Behind. This morning, they blogged: Last fall, the prestigious [...]
Five predictions for 2009 …and more!
Continuing a tradition that started last year, I am listing my predictions for the big stories that will impact the education world in 2009. My predictions from last year were hit-and-miss, but I did well overall. How will I fare this year? No Child Left Behind won’t get left behind. Contrary to all the data [...]
The adequate yearly conspiracy?
Whitney Stark at Minnesota Public Radio wrote me to ask what I think about the increase in schools that fail to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under No Child Left Behind: Minnesota Public Radio News is interested in learning more about what is going on with Minnesota’s declining and low Adequate Yearly Progress results. What [...]
McCain and Obama on educational change
Few topics are as political as education, in which at least basic schooling is compulsory for all Americans. It is fitting, then, that we conclude this week’s focus on change with a look at the changes that presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama each propose for U.S. education. After analyzing educational policy statements on [...]
Repost: 10 ways U.S. education is failing to produce creatives
Our third item this week on the United States’ unstable orbit around mediocrity is a repost of our top ten list of how U.S. education is failing to create students that will succeed in creative, knowledge- and innovation-based economies (first published last June). We apologize for beating a dead horse, but No Child Left Behind [...]
“No problem left behind”
Our second post this week on the United States’ unstable orbit around mediocrity focuses on Matt Miller’s critique of education in America from the January/February 2008 Atlantic Monthly: “First, kill all the school boards.” He writes that “local control has become a disaster for our schools” and that school districts are stunted by four key [...]
All children left behind
In our first post this week on the United States’ unstable orbit around mediocrity, we present a short set of slides on how No Child Left Behind is endangering America’s ability to compete academically. (To view a larger version, download the file here.) | View | Upload your own Next week, we will focus on [...]
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