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Umphrey, Jan – Principal Leadership, 2011
This article presents an interview with Diane Ravitch. Ravitch replies to the following questions: (1) What does a good secondary education look like to you?; (2) What should the role of the federal government be?; (3) U.S. public schools regularly take a pounding in the media, but do you see strengths in our system? Were there ever good old days…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, Federal Government, Urban Education
Bracey, Gerald W. – Principal Leadership, 2009
In recent years, a concatenation of fears, pressures, and agendas has produced a new round of testing in the form of high school exit examinations. There has not, however, been an accompanying rush to see whether the exams do any good. No state has attempted to validate its test against external criteria: given the hyperbole surrounding the tests…
Descriptors: High Schools, Academic Achievement, High School Graduates, Exit Examinations