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Welcome to ASCD Express!
ASCD Express, a biweekly
e-newsletter focusing on best practices in the school and classroom, will now be e-mailed to all ASCD members as an added member service.
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Teaching and Learning Conference Daily
Get your daily briefing on content shared during conference sessions and keynote presentations. The 2009 ASCD Conference on Teaching and Learning kicks off with pre-conference sessions today and runs through the weekend. This year’s theme is "Leading and Learning in the 21st Century."
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ASCD Talks with An Author: Yong Zhao
In this video, ASCD author Yong Zhao speaks about his new book, Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization.
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Zhao Stirs Debate Over Standards
Yong Zhao criticizes the current U.S. education reform agenda for creating a narrow, prescriptive vision of teaching and learning.
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Blog Watch: Notes from the School Psychologist
In her blog, clinical psychologist Rebecca Branstetter delivers regular doses of compassion, humor, and insight on counseling.
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Multiple Measures: But What Kinds?
Teaching to tests rarely promotes good instruction, and basing all decisions on a single test is unwise. But if many assessment measures are acceptable, how can we make sure that schools are accountable? What roles do teachers, principals, superintendents, and others have in designing and implementing balanced assessment systems?
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Who Will Lead the Way in the Age of Globalization?
It’s hard to argue against high academic standards and opportunities for all students, but what happens when the means for pursuing these goals do more harm than good? Chinese-educated author Yong Zhao has seen firsthand the shortcomings of test-driven, standardized education reforms and cautions that the United States may be on its way to creating a nation of test-takers, not diversely talented students.
In this issue of ASCD Express, Zhao and others debate which approaches to education will help students lead and succeed in the global age.
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The Land of High-Stakes Testing
For more than 1,300 years, China has relied on systems of high-stakes exams to determine academic success—and therefore jobs and social mobility. Yong Zhao discusses how these tests favor rote memorization over technical, physical, and scientific skills and may be responsible for limiting innovation and creativity.
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College and Career Readiness Standards for Language Arts: The Best We've Got?
The Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association are currently drafting national education standards that states will need to adopt in to be eligible for certain government funding programs. The standards are fewer and clearer, but can they really serve both college and career readiness?
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Why Creativity Now?
Creativity is often academically misunderstood—it’s believed to be applicable to only certain content or students and lack structure. Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson explains how this skill is vital to critical thinking and problem solving.
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Leading the Way Every Day
Future-Focused Leadership: Preparing Schools, Students, and Communities for Tomorrow's Realities |
21st Century Skills: Promoting Creativity and Innovation in the Classroom |
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Zhao Versus Two Million Minutes
A Chinese academic and an American entrepreneur walk into a school. Whose vision will lead the direction of education policy reforms?
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New Leaders for New Schools: Seeing the Big Picture
New Leaders for New Schools studied its own leaders in more than 60 schools to develop the Urban Excellence Framework, a road map of principals' actions that have moved schools from crisis to stability.
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My Back Pages: Contrasting Attitudes of Japanese and American Teachers
In an Educational Leadership article from 1982, a researcher compares survey results of Japanese and U.S. teaching and finds that their outlook, approaches, and practices differ significantly.
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Educating Global Citizens: New Kindergarten Combines Strengths of East and West
The 3e International Kindergarten in Beijing benefits from both American and Chinese approaches to structure and pedagogy.
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