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Popperian chutzpah
I have no idea whether Andy Rotherham is correct in claiming that the Economic Policy Institute paper on value-added scores and teacher evaluation is marginal to the current policy debate. The historian in me wants to talk about contingency and the human vulnerability to confirmation bias, and it seems the EPI paper follows one line […]
Emotions and history
As my colleagues in the social-studies education program at USF would point out, one goal some teachers have for history is using a form of (past) culture shock to develop students' empathy. I think some version of empathy is useful for reading primary sources and identifying potential interpretations and questions, but "developing empathy" is not […]
Another unquantified, undocumented thumbnail history of youth
Even if some traditional milestones are never reached, one thing is clear: Getting to what we would generally call adulthood is happening later than ever. via What Is It About 20-Somethings? – NYTimes.com And then, while writing a long article about this supposedly new "emerging adulthood" stage of life, freelance science reporter Robin Marantz Henig […]
Opportunistic employment filtering
The press reaction to the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce report Help Wanted was muted (and one could even say the press ignored it after a day or two in mid-June), but the Pope Center's George Leef took a crack at the economic analysis and a crack at the policy implications more recently. Leef's […]
Alternative “mindset” list
There's been the usual annual attention paid this week to the Beloit College "Mindset" list of semi-cute perspectives on generational change. I've been thinking about more realistic ones they never mention: Thurgood Marshall died before they could walk. They can't remember when Aid to Dependent Children was a national guarantee Hillary Clinton has always had […]