Arthur Levine is the president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey. He served as the president of Teachers College, Columbia University from 1994 to 2006.
Our Schools Need Edu-Philanthropy’s Dollars and Its Policy Priorities
Is there a meaningful role for philanthropy in our push to improve our public schools? While we may think the answer is a simple one, the Los Angeles Times recently called it into question,...
Yes, We Need VAM to Ensure Great Teaching, But It's Time for VAM 2.0
I am a strong advocate for using student test scores to assess teacher quality and the most effective means to accomplish this are value added measures (VAM scores), designed to assess students’...
