"Your education today is your economy tomorrow," is a quote from Andreas Schleicher from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), who has become one of the world's most influential figures in education. I took this statement off the PISA Day...
As I mentioned yesterday, I am in England, and when I do an Internet search I often run across articles and reports from journals and newspapers in this part of the world. I did a search on PISA 2013 test results which will be released tomorrow (Tuesday, December 3rd)...
According to today's lead newspaper story, the results to be released by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), show the country has simply "stagnated" since its lackluster performance four years ago. The OECD results will be announced on...
"High-stakes plan could change teachers pay," is the title of an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution paper. The article is a good review of the history behind why the state is going to move to "merit" pay, and how the Race to Top grant that Georgia won in 2010...
Latest Story The Druid Hills Charter Cluster, Inc., is a corporation that has petitioned to the DeKalb County School Board to convert seven public schools into a charter cluster. In 2010, the Georgia Legislature amended the Georgia code to enable a local board to act...
Moneyball: A book and a movie based on real events in which a baseball team is assembled using analytical, evidence-based, and sabermetric methods. Sabermetrics is derived from the acronym SABR meaning Society for American Baseball Research. GA AWARDS: An acronym...
