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harles Taylor Kerchner is Research Professor in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University, and a specialist in educational organizations, educational policy, and teachers unions. In 2008, he and his colleagues completed a four-year study of education reform of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The results of that research can be found in The Transformation of Great American School Districts and in Learning from L.A.: Institutional Change in American Public Education, published by Harvard Education Press. He writes the blog Mindworkers.com,

• Learning 2.0: Writing gets serious when schools become publishers

  4/10/12 • (1)

• Once more around the track of school reforms in Los Angeles Unified

  12/15/11 • (4)

• The third chair at the bargaining table in Los Angeles

  10/20/11 • (7)

• Establishing the intersection of “Be nice” and “Know a lot”

  9/30/11 • (0)

• Look to experience, not policy, to assess 21st century skills

  8/12/11 • (3)

• Design schools so students become real workers in education system

  6/23/11 • (1)

• Remix of knowledge acquisition and practice are elements of Learning 2.0

  5/27/11 • (4)

• Besides anger, action and ideas can emerge from the worst of times

  5/19/11 • (5)

• New culture of learning: Triumphant return of Dewey and child’s play

  4/29/11 • (0)

• Why the politics we’ve got won’t produce the schools we need

  3/10/11 • (7)