HGSE in the Media

May 2009

As Seniors Graduate, Debate Continues on Exit Exams
"We have very little hard, empirical evidence about the effects of these test-based accountability programs, all of them, on student learning." - Professor Daniel Koretz (Washington Post, 5/28/09)

Johnson: Educators Want 'Team Approach'
"It's an important time for unions to figure out how teachers can become a part of this incredible (reform) movement. If not, will we revert to much more top-down reform?" - Professor Susan Moore Johnson (New York Teacher, 5/19/09)

World Class Schools for Iowa: Focus on 'Survival Skills,' Such As Critical Thinking
An interview with Change Leadership Group Director Tony Wagner on his recent book, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach The New Survival Skills Our Children Need - And What We Can Do About It. (Des Moines Register, 5/14/09)

Partnership's First Product Aimed at Middle School Vocabulary
"After 12 weeks of lessons, students who took part in the program scored as well on vocabulary tests as nonparticipating students who were two years older, according to Catherine E. Snow, the Harvard University scholar who is leading the Word Generation project." (Education Week, 5/11/09. Registration required.)

Southern States Urged to Tackle Adolescent Literacy
"I am glad to see they are doing this, because there was a certain period in American education, not too long ago, that it was assumed if you were just worried about reading in the primary grades, you’d solve all your problems." - Professor Catherine Snow (Education Week, 5/1/09. Registration required.)

The Next Big Thing: Personalized Education
"Throughout most of history, only the wealthy have been able to afford an education geared to the individual learner. For the rest of us, education has remained a mass affair, with standard curricula, pedagogy, and assessments." - Professor Howard Gardner (writing in Foreign Policy, May/June 2009)