What About These Darn Standardized Tests?

As a writer, speaker, and professor, I do my best to stay focused on enduring issues in our schools. I care most about staff motivation, teacher morale, school culture and climate, and student behavior. These core issues have been central to our schoolsall schools-for decades. and will remain essential decades from now. Likewise, I tend to stay away from the hot issue of the day (or year, or decade).