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Motion chart of international attainment patterns, 1960-2009
In approximately a month, I am presenting a paper on international attainment patterns at the History of Education Society annual meeting in Chicago. Below is a figure from the paper, a motion chart of attainment data for 25-29 year olds by level of schooling calculated from the harmonized attainment variable in the International Public Use […]
Duncan’s bus-tour myth about history of education classes
From an article September 8 about Arne Duncan’s bus-tour stop at the University of Michigan School of Education: One “big thing I hear consistently” from young teachers is that they spend too much time in college studying educational theory, history and philosophy and did not receive enough hands-on experience in actual classrooms, Duncan said. I don’t know which students Duncan […]
Being careless with education history
Earlier today, Duke professor Cathy Davidson uploaded a rebuttal to the New York Times article by Matt Richtel on technology’s limits, a retort that included the following passage: Keep in mind public, compulsory school was invented in the 19th century because of the industrial age which needed a certain kind of focused worker who understood the new […]
The bituminous tower?
A few months after arguing that education was designed entirely around industrialization, Duke University English professor Cathy Davidson admiringly refers to Ken Robinson’s TED talk and argues that “we’re really, implicitly training students to be college professors” in K-12 schooling (Davidson’s words). Put the two together and I’m wondering where all those college professors in […]
Where is the status quo any more?
I’m getting tired of people complaining about a shibboleth they call “the defender of the status quo.” Be forewarned: if you blithely talk in my presence about “the status quo” in K-12 schooling, I will be sorely tempted to kick you in the shins. What status quo? For the past three years, real per-pupil spending […]