Commitment and Common Sense: Leading Education Reform in Massachusetts - Couverture souple

Driscoll, David P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1682531163 ISBN 13 : 9781682531167

Editeur : Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 2017

Synopsis

Commitment and Common Sense tells the inside story of how Massachusetts became a national model for education. Twelve years after the passage of the state's comprehensive education reform law in 1993, Bay State student scores rose to the top of "the nation's report card" (the National Assessment of Educational Progress) in fourth- and eighth-grade reading and math--and have stayed there ever since.

How were state leaders able to raise student achievement to such levels and maintain them? Are there leadership lessons for others now that the spotlight on improvements in education has returned to the states under the Every Student Succeeds Act?

David P. Driscoll, the man put in charge of implementing the Massachusetts Education Reform Act just days after it was signed, provides answers to both questions in this provocative insider account of the key events leading up to, through, and following this pivotal period.

This book is full of lively anecdotes and wisdom born from experience in the trenches of education politics at local, state, and national levels. Driscoll offers unique insights for current and future education leaders interested in learning more about the keys to Massachusetts's success and understanding of the power of state policy to effect change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David P. Driscoll was the twenty-second commissioner of education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He was appointed by the Board of Education on March 10, 1999.

Dr. Driscoll has a forty-five-year career in public education and educational leadership. A former secondary school mathematics teacher, he was named Melrose assistant superintendent in 1972 and superintendent of schools in the same community in 1984. He served in that role until 1993, when he was appointed Massachusetts deputy commissioner of education, just days after the state's Education Reform Act was signed into law. He became interim commissioner of education on July 1, 1998.

Dr. Driscoll earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics at Boston College, his master's degree in educational administration from Salem State College, and his doctorate in education administration from Boston College.

He is past president of the Harvard Round Table of School Superintendents and the Merrimack Valley Superintendents Roundtable, was an elected member of the executive board of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, and was vice president of the superintendents' association at the time of his appointment as deputy commissioner. Dr. Driscoll was president of the Council of Chief State School Officers and currently serves on several boards, including Teach Plus, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, the K12 Advisory Board, and the National Institute for School Leadership. He was appointed chair of the National Assessment Governing Board by US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in 2008.

He is the youngest of ten children. His wife, Kathleen, is a former reading teacher at North Shore Vocational High School. The Driscolls have four children and three grandchildren. They live in Melrose, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1682531163
• ISBN 13: 9781682531167
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible