by Eskolta News Team | Jun 25, 2018 | Viewpoints
“Government accountability systems too often rush into assessing transfer schools by making a few tweaks to high school measures, an approach that inevitably over-identifies failure and under-identifies success, or simply gets it wrong.” New York State...
by Eskolta News Team | Nov 20, 2015 | Viewpoints
Nine years ago, I and others working with transfer schools sat with the NYC Department of Education staff responsible for creating the first progress reports. They generously listened to feedback on how to assess transfer schools and let the progress report evolve...
by Eskolta News Team | Jun 22, 2015 | Viewpoints
After nine years of teaching, my wife gave up on the profession a few years ago and made a career change. She is now the deputy director of a government delegation to the United States, meeting with diplomats, engineering treaties, and giving speeches at the United...
by Eskolta News Team | Nov 12, 2014 | Viewpoints
Recently, the New York City Department of Education added a simple but critical element into its capacity framework for schools: Trust. Trust, of course, is important for more than only schools. As the philosopher Sissela Bok wrote: “Whatever matters to human beings,...
by Eskolta News Team | Apr 1, 2014 | Viewpoints
What does the year 2014 matter in the history of public education? For those who are keeping score, this is the year, according to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), when every student in America was supposed to have achieved proficiency. According to the law, which...
