HGSE in the Media

August 2007

SAT Scores Take Another Dip
"I would say, ‘Hmm, it’s a warning sign.... Let’s see what happens over the next few years.' If we keep getting these kinds of declines, then that's something we’ve got to start worrying about." – Professor Daniel Koretz (Education Week, 8/28/07. Free registration required.)

As Part of ‘1.5 Generation,’ Cho Caught Between Cultures
"Children and adolescents who internalize are those who are prone to depression, anxiety and social withdrawal. They're not overtly aggressive or disruptive, and because they stay under the radar, they are rarely noticed." – Lecturer Josephine Kim (Roanoke News, 8/26/07)

A High-Stakes Appointment
"Governor Deval Patrick turned to a seasoned, centrist educator this week when he tapped Paul Reville of Harvard's Graduate School of Education to chair the state's nine-member Board of Education. Reville, a leader of the education reform movement here since the early 1990s, has earned the post by elevating the state's educational ambitions through both solid research and policy analysis…at the state level, at least, the school year is getting off to a promising start." (Boston Globe, 8/24/07)

A Sage Appointment
"A consensus builder who is well-respected in state and national education circles, Mr. Reville should have little difficulty achieving the enhanced level of collaboration within the education establishment Mr. Patrick hopes to achieve." (Worcester Telegram and Gazette, 8/23/07)

Educators Consider Merit Pay Plans
"They often had no basis of any objective measure of performance, so what sometimes happened is there would be different awards made to different individuals and they would become public, and people would be appalled at the individuals who were given the awards or not given the awards." – Professor Susan Moore Johnson (USA Today, 8/18/07)

Leading for Change
"There are many things we do right as educators — most notably, working hard to make a difference in the lives of children, despite ever-escalating challenges. I’m beginning to see, however, that we educators are handicapped when it comes to leading efforts to improve teaching and learning. People in a host of other professions — business, law, medicine, engineering, architecture — have been trained to analyze and solve problems as a matter of everyday practice. We have not." – Tony Wagner, codirector of the Change Leadership Group (Education Week, 7/31/07. Free registration required.)

Redundancy Testing
"The phrase that comes to mind is, ‘Nixon going to China.'" – Professor Howard Gardner (Boston Globe, 7/29/07)