For one thing to change, everything must change
When Sizer Fellow and ACE Leadership Academy executive director Tony Monfiletto took the stage at TEDx in Albuquerque last month, he challenged his hometown audience to reinvent and reframe education...
View ArticleTransforming Education: An Interview with Larry Myatt
This Q & A interview with Forum Convener Dr. Larry Myatt was published on the National Institute for Student-Centered Education website. The founder of Fenway High School in Boston and the founder...
View ArticlePersonalization or good marketing?
by George Wood"Personalization" and "engagement" seem to be the new catchwords in education reform these days. Too bad the concepts are not credited to the person who first talked about them. It was...
View ArticleTGIF
by George WoodSome 21 years ago I swiped an idea from my friend Dennis Littky and started sending out what I call "TGIFs." The idea was to inform, and perhaps provoke some thought about how we keep...
View ArticleTed Sizer's Vision for The New American High School
(first published July 24, 2013 in The Washington Post)by Jay Mathews, Washington Post columnistWhen Theodore Sizer, known to friends and admirers as Ted, died of colon cancer at 77 in 2009, we lost the...
View ArticleSummer of Discontent
by George Wood, Forum Executive Director and Superintendent of Federal Hocking Local SchoolsIn Steinbeck's The Winter of our Discontent, the well-meaning Ethan Hawley compromises his ethical compass to...
View ArticleFewer, Better Tests Can Boost Student Achievement
by Linda Darling-Hammond, John Jackson and Marc Tucker(This Commentary was published in Education Week in print on October 9, 2013 as Note to Congress: Fewer, Better Tests Can Boost Student...
View ArticleMore Than A Doghouse
by George Wood, Forum Executive Director and Superintendent of Federal Hocking Local SchoolsAt most high schools, fall means football, homecoming and writing college application essays. Add a fourth...
View ArticleNo Excuses
by George Wood, Superintendent of the Federal Hocking Local Schools in Stewart, Ohio; Executive Director of the Forum for Education and Democracy; Board Chair of The Coalition of Essential Schools The...
View ArticleIt's Finally Here
by George Wood, Superintendent of Federal Hocking Local Schools, Executive Director of the Forum for Education and Democracy and Board Chair of The Coalition of Essential SchoolsOur Lake Wobegon moment...
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