In this wide-ranging interview, consultant, educator and author Mike McGill discusses:
- Mistakes of education reform in the late 1990s and early 2000s
- Problems of inequity in the current education system
- Improving the overall quality of the educational experience for kids
- Technology in education
- Education after COVID-19
Where Education Reform Has Been and Could Go – An Interview with Mike McGill
Mike McGill, an Edge Foundation board member, is a consultant to the Tri-State Consortium, an organization of high-performance public school districts in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York that are committed to continuous improvement through self-study and external review. He was formerly a Senior Fellow in Leadership at the Fordham University Graduate School of Education and Director of the Metropolitan School Council (MSC), a Fordham affiliate. He was Superintendent of the Scarsdale (NY) public schools from 1998 to 2014 and was New York State Superintendent of the Year in 2007.He is the author of Race to the Bottom: Corporate School Reform and the Future of Public Education.