Charles Taylor Kerchner
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'Mass Personalization' Drives Learning Experiment at AltSchool
It's hard and historically expensive to personalize learning. AltSchool's founders think they know how and that an exponential change in learning will follow. → Read More
2018 Election Will Rock California Education
Next year's California election will be both a referendum on the massive changes in education finance and testing enacted during Jerry Brown governorship and a test of the political coalition that made those changes possible. → Read More
Why Don't More Unions Perform Like This?
The potential of professional grade unionism raises the question, "what don't more unions and managements act this way." They would if the law required or encouraged them to. → Read More
Stop Charter School War; Build a New Learning System
The Charter School War in Los Angeles just continues a debilitating fight started nearly two decades ago. One way forward is to shift attention to designing and building fundamentally different ways of teaching and learning. → Read More
A New School District Design for Los Angeles
If all publically financed schools in Los Angeles got substantial operating authority, what would hold the system together? Here's a sketch of a "big tent" school system design. → Read More
Here's the Peace Prize for the L.A. Charter War
The election of a charter-friendly school board in Los Angeles will not end the Charter School Wars. Civic activists need to promote a larger goal and seize the peace dividend. → Read More
Remembering Judy Burton, a School Reform Pioneer
Judy Burton, who headed Los Angeles school reform programs in the 1990s and then formed the Alliance charter organization, has died. → Read More
Slow Implementation Endangers School Funding in Calif.
Nearly everyone says they like California's Local Control Financing Formula. A new report says it's a work in progress that's helping equity. But impatience and slow implementation put the system in jeopardy. → Read More
University of California Scientists Present Climate Change Solutions
University of California scientists want to move the messaging about climate change from gloom-and-doom to practical solutions. Their video series debuts today as Earth Day approaches. → Read More
Fear and Optimism From Calif. School Leaders
A panel of school district leaders echoes the fears their students face from the Trump Administration but also the optimism about working within California's new financial and accountability systems. → Read More
Carnegie Summit Illustrates Path Toward Equity
"Getting better at getting better," is a catch phrase backed by solid science. Its methods build a better way toward closing achievement gaps. → Read More
STEM Blossoms in California Salad Bowl
Along with winter vegetables, STEM is blooming in Imperial County. Dennis and Daniel Gibbs are growing young scientists by transplanting the scientific method to the second grade. → Read More
Union Program Boosts Classroom Innovation
The Institute for Teaching, a California Teachers Association offshoot, has put nearly $1-million behind innovative teacher-initiative projects from STEM to STEAM: labs, gardens, dance, culture, and canoes. Here's a look. → Read More
How Adding Another Person to a Conversation Builds Capacity
In this second part of an interview with superintendent Devin Vodička and professor Alan J. Daly, they talk about how the simple act of adding one more person to a conversation can triple the power of a network. → Read More
How Creating Networks Builds Winning School Districts
The Vista Unified School District won a XQ super school prize. Superintendent Devin Vodička attributes success to deliberately creating relational networks. Here, a conversation with the superintendent and University of California San Diego professor Alan J. Daly. → Read More
The Fossils Are Old; The Scientists Are Young
Elementary school students do real science in a partnership between L.A. Summit Prep and the La Brea Tar Pits funded by the National Science Foundation. → Read More
A Proposal to Revive Local Taxing Authority for Calif. Schools
Even in the best of times, California public schools, face lean financing compared to large states with comparable costs of living. Legislative expert Rick Simpson wants to give local districts more taxing authority. → Read More
Solar Panels Electrify Student Success
In Temecula, California, Blaine Boyer uses solar panels, painted guitars, and dragon lizards, to teach STEM, motivate students, and plant the seeds of adulthood in reluctant continuation school students. → Read More
Here's An Alternative to Betsy DeVos' Privatization Agenda
Betsy DeVos' privatization agenda will become national policy. The California counter-narrative is creating a public system that improves itself. → Read More
It's Time to Take Betsy DeVos Seriously
The script played out. Betsy DeVos has become the most vilified U.S. education secretary in history, and she just took the oath of office. But it's time to take her ideas and her politics seriously. → Read More