We Need Changes Beyond School, Too
Meier: We apparently have settled for closing the test-score gaps between the poor and rich on at least math and reading tests.
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March 27, 2014
Choice: For Shareholders or Stakeholders?
Meier: Neighborhood schools have some important advantages in terms of political democracy, precisely by encouraging people to talk across class and race. Alas, not many contain such mixtures!
March 25, 2014
Choice Is Messy. So Be It.
Pondiscio: Belief in creationism troubles me less than a belief in learning styles, for which there is roughly equal scientific support.
March 20, 2014
Why Voting Beats 'Voting With One's Feet'
Meier: I've discovered, painfully, that my championship of choice for many years has turned into a monster.
March 18, 2014
Deborah Meier, Libertarian?
Pondiscio: Having standards to which all publicly funded schools are held accountable doesn't strike me as an undue burden.
March 13, 2014
Improve Democracy, Not Tests
Meier: Let's keep improving on democracy rather than testing.
March 11, 2014
Testing, Truth, and Consequences
Pondiscio: Fair-minded readers might applaud the mindset that asks not simply, "What does this test measure?" but also, "What kind of classroom practice does this test encourage?"
March 06, 2014
Agreed: No Profiting Off Children's Education
Deborah Meier: If democracy is worth dying for, how about our learning to live with it?
March 04, 2014
What Business Doesn't Know About Education
Pondiscio: If education has an outdated view of business, the business world can be equally clueless about education.
February 25, 2014
We 'Choose' for Poor Children Every Day
Meier: You and I-or some other somebodies-are deciding the future of "other people's children" unless we provide ways for "them" to have a voice, a vote, and the resources to decide their own future.
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