The DeHavilland Blog

In an era of reduced resources and increased expectations, schools are overlooking the most obvious and effective solution to both challenges: enlisting community leaders as true partners in education. That's what I write about.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Teachers are NOT the most important thing

These days, every eye in K-12 education is focused on the goal of creating better teachers. Arne Duncan says it’s the single biggest factor ...

Monday, February 27, 2012

On the other hand…

To their credit, the Obama administration has done more than any administration since Reagan’s to encourage community/school partnerships. T...

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

How to waste $5 billion: The RESPECT Project

As part of its 2013 budget, the Obama Administration has requested $5 billion for a new USDOE initiative called the RESPECT Project (the acr...

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Which way forward?

Back in 2008, we held our first event – the Effective Education Partnerships Conference (EEPC). We only had a couple of hundred people there...

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The hidden danger to the K-12 system (funding)

Yesterday, an article in the Chicago Tribune highlighted problems with Illinois’ college tuition investment plan, specifically a 30% funding...

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

It’s worse than you think (career/college readiness)

EducationNews.org reported today on a 2010 study that looked at whether high school students were being prepared for career or college. The...

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Normalcy bias

Normalcy bias is one of the greatest challenges facing education today – but recognizing its existence opens up tremendous opportunities for...

Thursday, December 01, 2011

The big, ugly picture in K-12 education

When I started this blog in 2005, my focus was primarily on partnership practices: who was working with whom to do what, what research had c...

Thursday, November 10, 2011

If you’re gonna go, go big

We’re getting very close to an inflection point in K-12 education. Federal stimulus money ($100 billion over two years, close to 10% of ALL...

Monday, October 31, 2011

Aligning K-12 ed and public interests

I occasionally contribute to the National Journal's education page. I recently responded to a new question on encouraging both college a...

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The cost of college

There is a great debate as to whether everyone should go to college. I'm not writing to weigh in on that debate (though I am squarely ag...

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Partnerships/foundations as school board platform?

I sift through a lot of news reports on partnerships and foundations, and over the past few years I've noticed something new: accounts o...

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Real partnerships include having a voice

I was unfortunately not able to attend the recent education summit hosted by The News-Press in Southwest Florida, but I'm finding the ma...

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Comparing apples to apples

Walt Gardner, a retired teacher who blogs at Education Week, has a new post titled It's Hypocritical to Demand Merit Pay for Teachers t...

Friday, September 30, 2011

Hopes dashed, again (Vision for Public Education)

I just caught wind of a new project in Georgia called A Vision for Public Education and got excited: According to the chair of the Georgia...

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