Tag: reform

Educators finding a voice in a complex global society, by Ryan Bates

  In this era of standards and accountability, educators have to move themselves from the sidelines to the forefront of public education reform to meet the needs of a 21st century society. Educators need to become more responsive to navigating in and outside the confines of the standards and accountability movement (Singh, 2007). While working

Common resistance to Common Core? by Emily Hodge

  One of the lessons from David Tyack and Larry Cuban’s classic book on educational reform, Tinkering Towards Utopia (1995), is that reforms are enacted when they are supported by a diverse coalition. In other words, reforms are enacted when multiple groups believes that the same reform policy will serve their differing purposes. This certainly seemed