The new year started off with a bang for education watchers in Los Angeles: a new leader will be chosen this year for the nation's second - largest school district. (laschoolreport.com)
This has been brilliantly and devastatingly explicated by cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, as well as by organizations such as Common Core, education thinkers like E.D. Hirsch and Diane Ravitch, and veteran education watchers such as Jay Mathews. (educationnext.org)
The book focuses on the difficulties in implementing change in Newark, despite bipartisan leadership, financial support, and the attention of education watchers nationwide. (educationnext.org)