The Death of Federalism?
Congress has far less expertise about school reform than any of the 100,000 schools for which it is now making rules and regulations. Read Full Post >
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January 25, 2011
January 18, 2011
The Pitfalls of Putting Economists in Charge Of Education
It is astonishing to realize the extent to which education debates are now framed and dominated by economists, not by educators or sociologists or cognitive psychologists or anyone else who actually spends time in classrooms. Read Full Post >
January 12, 2011
When Good Words Become the Enemy
I had such faith in the abstract when I began teaching. And to my delighted surprise even the children I was told were too deprived to play, or had no language for play, etc., took to it without a single lesson. Read Full Post >
December 07, 2010
We Need Public Schools and Democratic Governance
We must continue to have schools that are the center of their communities, where children are students, not products, and parents are citizens, not customers. Read Full Post >
November 30, 2010
Bill Gates Listens to the Wrong People
The eerie similarity between Secretary Duncan and Bill Gates makes me wonder who is running the Department of Education. Read Full Post >
November 09, 2010
What I Learned in New Orleans
My favorite line from that day occurred when Jackson said he had recently visited some very high-performing nations. At each stop, he asked authorities: "What do you do about bad teachers?" They consistently replied: "We help them." Read Full Post >
November 01, 2010
Did We Bridge Our Differences?
Diane Ravitch writes: "Somehow our old disputes about whole language, bilingual education, and the new new math pale in comparison to the coordinated assault by powerful forces on the very foundations of public education." Read Full Post >
October 14, 2010
Considering 'The Same Thing Over and Over'
Deborah Meier uses Frederick Hess's book, The Same Thing Over and Over, as the springboard for a bigger look at school reform and the conflict between hype and reality in school change. Read Full Post >
October 12, 2010
Are Charters the Silver Bullet?
Charters are not a silver bullet. They are a lead bullet. Their target is American public education. Read Full Post >
September 29, 2010
The Truth Has Taken a Beating: Now What?
The scare tactics that followed A Nation at Risk have led to a false and damaging narrative about American schools and what needs to be done to improve them, Deborah Meier writes. Read Full Post >
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