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The 14 y.o. Who Inspired Me to Leave the Country 16 Aug 2013 | 08:21 am
The 14-year-old who inspired me to leave the country was named Wilfried Hounyo. I met him while reporting in DC public schools for Time a few years ago. Wilfried's parents had recently moved him and h...
When Your College Roommate is One of the “Smartest Kids in the World” 14 Aug 2013 | 12:31 am
People sometimes ask me if international education rankings really matter. After all, the U.S. has done just fine with a mediocre education system until now. Our economy has other engines that drive g...
Why I Wrote The Smartest Kids in the World 13 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
For most of my career at Time and other magazines, I worked hard to avoid education stories. If my editors asked me to write about schools or tests, I countered with an idea about terrorism, plane cra...
The $4 Million Teacher 4 Aug 2013 | 09:45 am
Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a rock-star teacher—a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of the world... My new book is excerpted in today's...
Surviving a Plane Crash 8 Jul 2013 | 06:19 am
Planes almost never crash. When they do, most people survive. In this way, at least, the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at SFO on Saturday was no exception. Of all the people involved in serious...
Hyperdrive 21 Jun 2013 | 07:13 pm
It used to be enough to go to college, pick up a few skills, and ease onto a career track. But now that information is updated hourly and available to anyone, anywhere, everyone must keep learning. An...
Tracking Around the World 10 Jun 2013 | 05:00 pm
A front page story in today's New York Times proclaims that grouping kids by ability is back in fashion in American classrooms. But that's not all; the article also claims that tracking, which refers ...
“The filters are in students’ heads.” 7 May 2013 | 08:45 pm
This is funny. From Scholastic Administrator story on Finland: “One anecdote that truly illuminates the difference between U.S. and Finnish culture came when visitors asked librarians how they filter...
A Boy Survivor 7 May 2013 | 05:23 am
I’ve been reading Richard Ford’s novel Canada, told from the perspective of a 15-year-old boy whose parents—unexpectedly, disastrously—rob a bank in 1960 in North Dakota. Damn, this is some fine writi...
American Exceptionalism 29 Apr 2013 | 09:33 pm
Marc Tucker explains why Americans are so burnt-out on tests that they might cannibalize the Common Core—the best thing to happen in American education in a long while. “American teachers’ experience...
