Invest in long-term needs, not short-term gains
If ever there was a time to bring together a diverse set of stakeholders to help identify their...
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Kappan Contributor: Joshua P. Starr
Pandemic offers opportunity to reduce standardized testing
For the last 20 years, the world of public education has loved to debate the value of standardized...
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Superintendents must be willing to take the heat
I love to quote old movies, and one of my favorite lines is from Willi Cicci, a henchman from the...
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Let’s rethink the message we send to potential educators
I had no plans to become a teacher. Sure, I liked kids, I had been a camp counselor, and I always...
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Who are the real experts in your school system?
Recently, I made my way through James Scott’s important book Seeing Like a State: How Certain...
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Local unions need to catch up with the times
While firm in his support for the national teachers unions, PDK’s Joshua Starr argues that local...
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