K-12 Education Category
Researching complex social issues? What’s your paradigm?
Posted on February 21, 2016 2 Comments
February 21, 2016 How would you solve a complex social issue like high school dropout? How would you study it? It turns out, it depends a lot on the assumptions you have about the nature of the world. Without too much jargon, we call this set of assumptions about the nature of reality a paradigm, worldview, […]
School Performance in Context
Posted on September 25, 2015 Leave a Comment
This month I had the chance to facilitate a discussion at GWU on the new report “School Performance in Context: Indicators of School Inputs and Outputs in Nine Similar Nations” put out by the Horace Mann League. The main author is Dr. James Harvey, Executive Director of The National Superintendents Roundtable. The report attempts to add […]