Becoming a parent was, without doubt, the most humbling experience of my life. As a young educator, I found it surprisingly easy to dispense advice about other people’s children, a practice in which I blithely engaged with a self-appointed sense of authority. As if to exact a measure of compensation for bestowing the title…
I must confess that my memory is beginning to slip. I can’t, for example, recall whether Walter Cronkite was trusted slightly more, or slightly less than God. What is certain is that a 1972 Oliver Quayle Research survey found the legendary CBS news anchor to be “the most trusted man in America.” So…
With Spring Break now behind us, we’ve entered that portion of the school calendar thought of by many as the ‘home stretch’. Memorial Day is suddenly less than six weeks away, and the finish line is rounding into view. Though in actuality this is one of the longest uninterrupted stretches of the school year,…
Last week I had the pleasure of participating in the annual winter meeting of the Council for American Private Education (CAPE). CAPE is to private schools, nationally, what CAPSO is to private schools in California. Which is to say it is an “organization of organizations” whose members reflect the rich diversity resident within…
A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege and pleasure of spending 45 minutes conversing with charter school champion and deep thinker Eric Premack. In addition to playing a central role in drafting California’s charter school law, funding system and policies, Mr. Premack has been a national education thought leader and front line…
