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Being an historian is a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it
I voted by absentee this year, so I was able to canvass for a little this afternoon before turning into Chauffeur Dad. I’m waiting at a large warehouse-turned-kid-exercise-palace, with a gymnastics place on one side and my son’s taekwondo place on the other. I was sitting on the floor when I heard a fellow parent, […]
Federal influence
Mike Petrilli asks one right question: where can the federal government influence behavior, and what are the tradeoffs? I’m especially delighted that the research in question is about desegregation. As I’ve written before, the argument against top-down reform by David Tyack and Larry Cuban is smart, sensible, detailed, and fits with an enormous amount of […]
On Wendy Kopp, TFA, and Linda Darling-Hammond
Back in June, I wrote a long entry on Teach for America and Linda-Darling Hammond’s critique of the Kopp organization and model. I had been puzzled at the claim by Kevin Carey and others that Darling-Hammond simply hated TFA with the type of bile that is usually attributed to Karl Rove, Bill Belichek, and others […]
The Project Method zombie
The NCTAF blog calls it “a 21st century education system.” Steve Lohr admires it as “the drive for technology-enabled reform of education.” The New Technology Foundation calls it “a fully proven model.” While I have some hopes for how technology might be used to change instruction, calling project-based learning new is something that raises alarms […]
Crisis rhetoric, attention seeking, and capacity building
Berliner and Biddle’s The Manufactured Crisis was the independent reading choice of several students in my summer doctoral course, and as they have been writing comments on the book in the last week, I have been thinking about the split retrospective view of the 1983 A Nation at Risk report, produced by the National Commission […]