Great, great post from Clarence Fisher on what needs to happen next in educational reform. This paragraph in particular:

It’s time for us to start thinking through bigger ideas. Blogs are not new anymore. Neither is Voicethread or flickr or wikis. But what about curriculum design, and power and democracy in classrooms? What about questioning who gets to organize learning experiences and perform evaluation? What about setting kids loose to solve community problems? These are things that are more of a direct challenge to the way that education is more traditionally organized … When classrooms stop looking like classrooms and begin  looking like something else, then we know we’re on the move to something else.

“Who gets to organize learning experiences and perform evaluation?”

It keeps coming back to the “A” word: Assessment. Once we figure out how we’re going to assess student learning in a meaninful way (and deal with the whole separation of formative vs summative), our instruction will change accordingly. Right?