Monday, November 21, 2011

Dear John, Education Sector Thinks A Lot About Teachers and More School Time

Dear John, Education Sector Thinks A Lot About Teachers and More School Time:

Dear John, Education Sector Thinks A Lot About Teachers and More School Time

by ELENA SILVA on NOVEMBER 21, 2011

in TEACHER QUALITY

My colleague Susan Headden and I recently wrote a piece about extending school time for the Wallace Foundation’s report “Reimagining the School Day”

John Thompson’s response rightly praised the Wallace Foundation’s attention to expanding not just time but high-quality learning. He also suggested that Susan and I did an alright job bringing up some important points that we gleaned from the Wallace conference. Thompson agrees, for example, that more learning time requires great partners. He also agrees that schools would do well to focus more