Blogs: Larry Leverett

Are Teacher Unions the Problem?: A Clear Look at a Cloudy Issue

By Larry Leverett
11/1/06

Scapegoating teacher unions for the failures of public education system is a favorite pastime of critics who view the organizations as major obstacles to creating the conditions necessary to promulgate change and innovation in America's schools.

Reaching Performance Parity: A Shared Reality About the Achievement Gap

By Larry Leverett
9/11/06

It is a mistake to assume that all members of the school community understand the nature of the achievement gap challenge. Getting stakeholders focused on the achievement gap is a challenge regardless of the demographic profile of a school, district, or community.

Closing the Achievement Gap: "All Children Can Learn"

By Larry Leverett
9/5/06

"How many effective schools would you have to see to be persuaded of the educability of poor children? If your answer is more than one, then I submit that you have reasons of your own for preferring to believe that pupil performance derives from family background instead of school response to family background. We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we haven't so far." -- Ronald Edmonds, Harvard University

Blogs: Larry Leverett

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Transformational leadership coach in Oakland, CA

Edutopia consulting online editor and teaches online education at Stanford

Writer about sustainability and project learning

STEM educator

Foundation senior fellow and executive director emeritus

Ed consultant and Edutopia New Teacher Group facilitator

Director of the Social-Emotional Learning Lab at Rutgers

Associate Professor of English Education at East Carolina University

Elementary school computer teacher

An education consultant, master teacher, and trainer

Founder of Envision Schools and four urban charter high schools

High school technology integration specialist

Ed consultant and online educator

Deputy director of the Learning First Alliance

Third-grade teacher, writer, and musician

English teacher and tech curriculum specialist

Edutopia community manager

Ed tech journalist

Neurologist, former teacher, author, and lecturer

Teacher at a middle school in San Gabriel, CA

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