Improving teaching and learning must drive efforts of reform

03-30-2011

Blog by Bill Honig/Thoughts on Public Education

I’m going to make a flat-out assertion that flies in the face of most current efforts to improve the achievement of California’s students. Unless improving curriculum and instruction becomes the driving force behind these efforts, gains will be minimal. We will never catch up with those world-class performers: nations such as the Asian tigers and Finland; states and provinces such as Massachusetts and Ontario, Canada; or districts such as Sanger and Long Beach. These jurisdictions have made what is taught and how it is taught central to their educational reform strategies. They have adopted a long-range effort to upgrade their teaching force and have built the infrastructure to improve curriculum and instruction. A recent report shows what the highest performing countries, states, and districts do. (more...)

Document Actions

Print this

Personal tools

Sections

Improving teaching and learning must drive efforts of reform

Document Actions