Charles Taylor Kerchner / commentary

Charles Taylor Kerchner is Research Professor in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University, and a specialist in educational organizations, educational policy, and teachers unions. In 2008, he and his colleagues completed a four-year study of education reform of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The results of that research can be found in The Transformation of Great American School Districts and in Learning from L.A.: Institutional Change in American Public Education, published by Harvard Education Press.

Posts by Charles Taylor Kerchner / commentary

• D.C. cheating issue calls test-driven incentives into question ~  April 21st, 2013
• Try a different tack: Hold teachers responsible for education quality ~  March 12th, 2013
• ‘I would prefer to trust our teachers …’ ~  January 27th, 2013
• How a small bet on technology could have a big payoff in learning ~  November 28th, 2012
• Bigger dashboards may not steer districts in right direction ~  July 25th, 2012
• Learning 2.0: Writing gets serious when schools become publishers ~  April 10th, 2012
• Once more around the track of school reforms in Los Angeles Unified ~  December 15th, 2011
• The third chair at the bargaining table in Los Angeles ~  October 20th, 2011
• Establishing the intersection of “Be nice” and “Know a lot” ~  September 30th, 2011
• Look to experience, not policy, to assess 21st century skills ~  August 12th, 2011