England vs Scotland: Competing school reform visions

By Valerie Strauss. Here is a post about the different ways that England and Scotland are approaching school reform — with echoes of the U.S. reform debate — by Marc Tucker, president of the non-profit National Center on Education and the Economy and an internationally known expert on reform. He is also editor of “Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World’s Leading Systems.” This appeared in Top of the Class, the monthly newsletter of the Center on International Education Benchmarking. Read more...