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Continue reading →: A legislator’s Next Steps in Student Success: Lew Frederick
Representative Lew Frederick has served in the Oregon House for the past five years. Before that, he was a teacher, a reporter, and a district administrator Oregon. “He has witnessed how manufactured crises, extreme deprivation of resources, and radical overhaul proposals work together to repurpose public education in a way…
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Continue reading →: Representative Lew Frederick asks More Questions on Student Success
Representative Lew Frederick has served in the Oregon House for the past five years. Before that, he was a teacher, a reporter, and a district administrator Oregon. “He has witnessed how manufactured crises, extreme deprivation of resources, and radical overhaul proposals work together to repurpose public education in a way…
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Continue reading →: A Legislator’s Thoughts on Student Success: Oregon’s Lew Frederick
Representative Lew Frederick has served in the Oregon House for the past five years. Before that, he was a teacher, a reporter, and a district administrator Oregon. “He has witnessed how manufactured crises, extreme deprivation of resources, and radical overhaul proposals work together to repurpose public education in a way…
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Continue reading →: Time to Give Up: A Response to Marc Tucker’s Proposal for Fixing Our National Accountability System
A few weeks ago, I wrote a response to Marc Tucker’s response to Diane Ravicth and Anthony Cody’s comments on Tucker’s proposal for fixing our national accountability system. My response was posted on Anthony Cody’s blog Living in Dialogue. Tucker followed with a response, in which he sort of agrees…
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Continue reading →: Fatal Attraction: America’s Suicidal Quest for Educational Excellence
[This is the introduction to my latest book Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon: Why China has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World published by Jossey-Bass in September 2014. Also available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.] In 2009 Dr. Beverly Hall, former superintendent of the…
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Continue reading →: Teacher Rotation: China’s New National Campaign for Equity
By 2020, about one million teachers and principals in China will be swapped between good and poor schools annually, if the nation’s new strategy for easing education inequity goes as planned. The strategy is outlined in a policy document[in Chinese] jointly issued by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the Ministry…
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Continue reading →: College Ready vs. Out-of-Basement Ready: Shifting the Education Paradigm
Last year when my son graduated from college, I asked the question “can you stay out of my basement?” as I believe an important outcome of education is the ability to live out of one’s parent’s basement, that is, the ability to be an independent and contributing member of a…
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Continue reading →: “Not Interested in Being #1:” Shanghai May Ditch PISA
“Not interested in #1 on International Tests, Focusing on Reducing Academic Burden: Shanghai May Drop Out of PISA” is the headline of a story in Xinmin Wanbao[original story in Chinese], a popular newspaper in Shanghai. Published on March 7th 2014, the story reports that Shanghai “is considering to withdraw from…
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Continue reading →: How Does PISA Put the World at Risk (Part 5): Racing to the Past
How Does PISA Put the World at Risk: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would suggest that PISA is a secrete plan of Western powers to derail China’s education reforms. China has been working hard to introduce significant reforms since…
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Continue reading →: How Does PISA Put the World at Risk (Part 4): Misleading the World
How Does PISA Put the World at Risk: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 China’s poorest beat our best pupils—The Telegraph (UK), 2-17-2014 Children of Shanghai cleaners better at math than kids of Israeli lawyers—Haaretz (Israel), 2-19-2014 Cleaners’ children in China beat kids of US, UK professionals at…
More about Yong Zhao
Dr. Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas. He previously served as the Presidential Chair, Associate Dean, and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he was also a Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership. Prior to Oregon, Yong Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. Additionally, he worked as a professor of educational leadership in the Faculty of Education at University of Melbourne and senior researcher at the Mitchell Institute of Victoria University in Australia. He was a visiting Global Professor at University of Bath and a visiting scholar at Warwick University in the UK.
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