Critical Skills

By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed

We Can Do Better Than No Child Left Behind!

In an Op-Ed for Roll Call pointed at the congressional debate regarding the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (commonly called “No Child Left Behind”), Professor James J. Heckman argues that we can do better! James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, a […]

Standardized Testing Has a Darker Side – “By Hook or By Crook”

When standardized test results are used to measure performance NOT of children being tested but of schools and individuals who run the schools, bad things can happen. In Atlanta, it looks like “it happened.” In Kate Brumback’s article, “Former Atlanta Schools Chief Indicted In Cheating Scandal” in the Huffington Post, she reports that falsified test […]