This year’s Commencement speaker was Dr. Thomas Hellie, President of Linfield College. It was a great speech. He gave our graduates four main pieces of advice, with good examples and Shakespearian references: 1) Find a…
We Don’t Need School Reform, We Need School Transformation I just read a great article about a “cutting-edge education experiment at Gray-New Gloucester Middle School” in Maine, that “could become the norm in Maine…
As noted in an earlier blog, I am the volunteer executive director of the Oregon Federation of Independent Schools. This morning, I was on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud on a forty-five minute segment…
From Education Week: “Thirty-six states have established policies that give districts and schools some degree of ability to award credits to students based on mastery of a subject, rather than “seat time,” a new report…
This just in – Education Week Headline – N.H. Schools Embrace Competency-Based Learning You can read all about it here. The article says this is “one of the most aggressive statewide efforts in the country…
When I’m not working hard as Delphian’s Assistant Headmaster, I head up the Oregon Federation of Independent Schools. I’ve been working with Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) radio on a news story about the condition of…
Oregon State Superintendent of Schools, Susan Castillo, just sent out a report about recent statewide test results. In her cover letter she wrote, “Education in Oregon, and around the country, has changed dramatically in the…
In a recent blog, I mentioned two articles arriving in the same newsletter. Today I’ll take up the second article “Replace ‘seat time’ with competency, reports says”. It must be apparent by now, I…
Just read an article claiming that the King School in Portland now has 183 school days, the most school days in an Oregon school, thanks to a federal grant. Parents of students attending KNOVA Learning…
Ending the Tyranny of the Lecture Today I read two articles in the same email newsletter. They were “hot”! In this blog, I’ll discuss the first article – Ending the ‘tyranny of the lecture’. It…