March 28, 2023 This is the story of what began on a summer morning, July 18th, 2026. A full-page ad appeared in The New York Times presenting a bold challenge
November 2, 2022 The International Baccalaureate celebrated its 50th anniversary four years ago in 2018. Even with such a substantial history, it would seem that misconceptions about the IB programs
Ozymandias There is a fast-developing problem for independent schools. It is more systemic than alleged racism and more disruptive than pandemic-induced protocols. Independent schools are becoming ungovernable. A 1970’s Management
The Extrinsic In Part 1 of this series, we focused on how the 50-year NAIS governance experiment around mission failed to build constituency alignment. The resulting landscape is one of
This article is the third in a series of educator commentaries on the independent school accreditation process. The first article was Sanje Ratnavale’s “Will Accreditation Survive COVID-19 and Racism?” The
Many current accreditation protocols have come under fire — for a number of legitimate reasons: the process is expensive ‘self-evaluations’ are labor-intensive, occur in largely disconnected silos (e.g., curriculum; leadership/governance;
What do parents and students do when they want to find out about a school’s quality? What do teachers do? Exactly what they would do when they book a trip