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Happy birthday, Jacques Barzun!
The retired historian is 103 today. But if you're interested in nostalgia, you can see his centennial celebration page. Apparently he's slowed down in recent years, taking a few days to read a book.
Rick Hess, the half-cynic
Rick Hess has a new book, The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday's Ideas (Harvard University Press, 2010), which argues that the history of education in the U.S. is littered with earnest reformers whose efforts went for naught or created all sorts of unintended consequences. While it is not […]
Facebook, teacher ethics, and history
This weekend's Tampa area news story about the Plant City High School teacher who gave a student a contraceptive is at one level a story about a (former!) teacher who had no boundaries and no common sense. She had a student on her Facebook list, gave him a morning-after contraceptive package after he was worried he had […]
Education behind bars to remove bars
A break from election discussion: David McKay Wilson has an interesting discussion of correctional education in an article in Nov/Dec 2010 Harvard Education Letter. That means education of teenagers who are in detention facilities. Wilson points to the (non-test-oriented) provisions of NCLB that apply to education behind bars: certification requirements for teachers, tracking of students […]
Mistakes are public: The foot-high erratum
In the 1920s, as the Lincoln Memorial was constructed, one of the people carving part of Lincoln's second inaugural address into the northern interior wall made a mistake, turning FUTURE into EUTURE. As the National Park Service explains, the extra line on the letter was filled in, but it's still visible, as I saw when […]