Why isn't Linda Darling-Hammond the Secretary of Education? Anyone? Anyone?

Linda- also has my vote-

Building teacher planning time into the school day is imperative.

Average American student has no chance to have a better job anywhere including USA.

Linda's focus on what actually constitutes high level work--thinking that builds capacity for cognitive complexity--is wonderful and necessary. Those of us in the transformation business can't talk about this enough. This is a useful brief clip to show to folks who aren't familiar with PISA data and feel lost about what we are doing here in the U.S. Clear, helpful, accessible, sensible. Okay, she has my vote as well for SECRETARY!

Shall we start a movement?

Wow - this is very eye-opening! I often run into this same dilemma with my current students. I often find myself thinking "You have already learned this! This should be so familiar!". She is very clear and is not presenting some new trendy reform for improvement but excellent observations. She's very objective, relying on the foundation of data and with her expertise and leadership, our own educational system would definitely see improvement! She has my vote!

To Tom King: It's good to know someone else is saying the same thing. I think Linda didn't make it as Sec of Ed because of her basketball skills. She should indeed be leading our educational agenda in this country.

She had my vote from the very beginning and I was disappointed when she was not awarded the position as Sec. of Ed.

I suspect that Finnish kids' success at inquiry learning depends heavily on background knowledge stemming from rote learning. Kids who KNOW a lot about a field can brainstorm juicy questions, sketch out experiments, etc. "Blank slates" cannot.

I know a Finn who says his history classes consisted largely of reading together out of a textbook. He wasn't complaining.

I love learning math,reading,sience,social studies, and all kinds of learning steradegies roseayn dalere gr.2 7 years old

Instead of racing through books to take the multiple choice test with 2 open-ended questions, I've often taken half to one whole marking period to read deeply and conduct assessment through writing papers. Analysis, extrapolation often are sidelined in our high-stakes testing frenzy. Love, love these videos!