Monthly Blog Archives: August 2011

When young siblings from the same family have very different BMIs, the whole family needs to pull together to make changes -- and credit the child who's overweight with helping them all get healthier.

A spate of new teacher evaluation laws threatens to lock innovators into the current state of school design and curtails the autonomy of charter and other high performing schools. Now is the time for states and districts to apply some critical thinking how to craft evaluation policies that foster innovation while simultaneously holding school leaders accountable for objectively verifiable results. Otherwise, we’ll end up squelching some of our more promising improvement efforts.

As a parent, I know how uncomfortable it can feel to speak up when children get even jaw-droppingly unhealthy messages about food. I don’t want to be the overzealous mother who takes away the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.