The Learning First Alliance (LFA), a consortium of 17 of the largest and most influential education associations gathered for its annual leadership council meeting in Washington, D.C. on April 22-23, 2010. The leadership council includes elected association officers and their CEOs and deputies. I served as chair of the LFA executive board this year, and offered [...]

I’ll be spending part of my weekend with the deans of the leading schools of education. They’ve formed a group called the Deans’ Alliance and meet several times a year to share concerns about teaching, learning, and research. With their cooperation, Kappan launched a new column this year titled R&D. Each month’s issue of Kappan [...]