The Price To Be Paid
Maybe, however, we do have a right to agree (by fiat) that making sense of the world, and above all of democracy is a prime goal of schooling in America. Read Full Post >
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December 15, 2011
December 13, 2011
Scrooge and School Reform
Ladd suggests that what is needed are positive policy interventions, such as early-childhood and pre-school programs; school-based health clinics and social services; after school programs and summer programs; and paying more attention to inputs such as school quality and school processes. Read Full Post >
December 08, 2011
Are All Choices a Choice?
If charters had stuck to their original selling point—the need for innovation on a small, less-regulated scale before we mandated it on a large scale—there'd be a few grumbles and otherwise just curiosity. Read Full Post >
November 29, 2011
Should Schools Be Run for Profit?
I have no problem with businesses making a profit when they offer value for goods and services. But there is something about this for-profit education industry that feels unseemly. Read Full Post >
November 22, 2011
The Problem With Charters
But, under current circumstances, the evidence suggests that local control, weighted in favor of those who actually have a personal stake in the enterprise (students, parents, teachers) is the best we can do. Read Full Post >
November 17, 2011
What Do We Mean by 'Public'?
Most of the new charters are not accountable to any public but their own privately chosen board (and a very distant appointed oversight committee). None of its constituents—parents, students, or staff—are by law part of that board nor have any choice but speaking with their feet. Not their voices. Read Full Post >
November 15, 2011
Billionaires for Education Reform
Today, the question of democracy looms large as we see increasing efforts to privatize the control of public schools. There is an even more worrisome and allied trend, and that is the growing influence of money in education politics at the state and local levels. Read Full Post >
October 18, 2011
If You Believe in Miracles, Don't Read This
But as long as public officials insist on making test scores the measure of teacher quality and school success, then their claims should be closely scrutinized using the metrics that they themselves have made the coin of the realm. Many of the schools that politicians hail as successes have records no different from other schools that the politicians are closing. Read Full Post >
October 04, 2011
The Trouble With the Parent Trigger
The Parent Trigger should be recognized for what it is: A stealth assault on public education. Read Full Post >
September 29, 2011
Forward to the Past
The big idea of the Reformers Ltd. is that we learn best if we feel scared and if we are quickly rewarded or punished. It keeps us on our toes, along with chants and drum beats and ticking clocks. Read Full Post >
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