I Stand With the Teachers of Wisconsin
If there is no organized force to advocate for public education in the state capitols of this nation, our children and our schools will suffer. That's the bottom line. Read Full Post >
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February 22, 2011
February 15, 2011
The Problem with TFA
Perhaps unintentionally, TFA's success has stifled any national discussion about how to build a profession of well-educated, well-prepared, experienced educators who view teaching as a career rather than an experience. Read Full Post >
February 10, 2011
Dignity and Respect in the Classroom
Being treated with dignity is, I suspect, part of our natural aspiration as humans. And while it can be crushed, it can also be restored. My experience in schools that placed faculty, family, and student dignity above all else was reassuring. Read Full Post >
February 01, 2011
The President's Speech
The status quo today is not good. For 10 years we have pursued the heavy-handed mandates of No Child Left Behind, with meager results. Read Full Post >
January 25, 2011
Closing the Incarceration Gap
There is never a time when we "finally" hit bottom and have nowhere to go but up. We have to take our stand right now, wherever and whenever justice is betrayed. Read Full Post >
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 11, 2011
'Huckleberry Finn' and 'The Wire'
But I am even more offended by the prospect that Mark Twain's classic work will be expurgated, rewritten by someone who wants to shield readers from the book's original language. How did we become such delicate creatures that we cannot dare to read a word that might discomfit us? Read Full Post >
January 04, 2011
Public Education and Fact vs. Fiction
No serious discussion can take place among people who hold so many different pictures of both current and past realities and have no patience for digging further. Read Full Post >
December 20, 2010
What I Learned in 2010
I was talking about the present dangerous effort to distort the purposes of education, to hand vast numbers of public schools over to private corporations, and to treat children as data points to satisfy misguided politicians, policy-makers, and economists. Read Full Post >
December 14, 2010
The Real Lessons of PISA
The lesson of PISA is this: Neither of the world's highest-performing nations do what our "reformers" want to do. How long will it take before our political leaders begin to listen to educators? Read Full Post >
