No sooner had tired eyes dried post-Obama victory speech than the ECE policy wonks, edu-pundits, and advocates were in full swing.  A host of issues await action in the shadow of the “fiscal cliff”—nearly $500 billion in automatic tax hikes and spending cuts, scheduled for the new year, which pose a grave threat to America’s [... click post title to read more ...]

This week ‘s media face-off  between education historian Diane Ravitch and Microsoft’s Bill Gates reminds me of how far we still have to go to bridge the gap between ECE and business.   Ravitch, long-time champion of accountability and school choice, has lately switched gears, taking to task the Obama administration, Bloomberg and Joel Klein in [... click post title to read more ...]

This past fall, as the nation’s 56 million children were heading back to school, Nobel-Prize-winning economist James Heckman wrote a letter to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Reform.  His question: What’s the best way to develop human capital to increase workforce capability, enhance productivity and social cohesion, and assure America’s economic competitiveness in [... click post title to read more ...]