Common Principles for Uncommon Schools

Horace Lisa Hirsch

Closing the Gaps of No Child Left Behind: The Assessment Debate for Essential Schools

Recently, a local reporter asked me if No Child Left Behind did more good than bad. I was sitting at my desk with a reporting folder for our district’s upcoming NCLB audit. We had already spent countless hours putting together data to illustrate our decisions. In fact, we hired a consultant to strategize ways to “make the grade” with the

Horace: Lisa Hirsch Published: February 5, 2008 By: Lisa Hirsch Topics: Assessment, Exhibitions

The Deep Irony of No Child Left Behind: Lisa Hirsch Interviews Linda Darling-Hammond

In January 2007, longtime CES educator Lisa Hirsch interviewed Linda Darling-Hammond, the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, where she launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. Darling-Hammond talked with Hirsch immediately after returning from testifying to a congressional committee about No Child Left Behind’s upcoming reauthorization, and suggested that Essential school educators

Horace: Lisa Hirsch Published: February 5, 2008 By: Lisa Hirsch Topics: Assessment, Exhibitions
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