Blogs

By Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at the Stanford University School of Education.

Excerpted and adapted from "Steady Work: How Countries Build Strong Teaching and Learning Systems" in The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future, New York: Teachers College Press, 2010. See original for footnotes and references.

By Austin Carr, from: http://www.fastcompany.com/1689358/a-hundred-companies-join-forces-for-change-the-equation-private-sector-education-initiative?partner=homepage_newsletter

Out of 30 industrialized nations, the United States ranks 21st in science and 25th in math. We’re spending more money than ever on schools, but with few results. Huge federal programs such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top are clunky, slow-moving bureaucratic nightmares. The American education system is broken. In order to fix it, the public sector needs to start keeping pace with the private sector. How? By getting the private sector involved.

A 20-minute documentary about the Arbor School in Tualatin, Oregon, and their Senior Project program.