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The Global Achievement Gap Keynote Video |
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This is a video of a July 2008 keynote address where Tony talked about his latest 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. The video includes questions from the audience.
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How Schools Change: Lessons From Three Communities |
 How Schools Change: Lessons from Three Communities Revisited is a highly readable acount of three high schools and their communities in the process of fundamental change. It is widely considered an education classic. In the new second edition, Tony revisits the three schools he first studied to find out what has happened in the intervening years and takes a close look at how rapid changes in the policy environment has impacted these schools and their leaders. Find out more about this book... |
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© Copyright Tony Wagner, 2006 (first Published in Education Week, January 11, 2006)
Rigor, it seems, is the new reform de jour. As a nation, we appear to have come to a consensus that all children deserve a “challenging and rigorous” education. The problem is: we have no common agreement about what is “rigor.” Is it rigorous to require all students to take a “college prep” curriculum, including advanced math? Are high school Advanced Placement courses the new standard for rigor, as many are now suggesting?
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The Global Achievement Gap Interview |
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Listen to a recent interview with Tony about his new 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
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Prerequisites for 'Scaling Up' |
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Copyright Tony Wagner, 1995 (first published in Education Week, May 24, 1995) Higher standards" and professional development have become unifying battle cries of school reformers. Like apple pie, few can oppose efforts to "professionalize" education, but the real questions are: which standards, decided by whom, and assessed how? And professional development for what? |
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