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On excuses for unintended consequences
Oh, my: I head out of town for a week, and when I get back there’s a trail of tears blogs on curriculum narrowing: Charles Barone, January 17 Robert Pondiscio, January 18 Eduwonkette, January 18 Eduwonk, January 17-18 Eduwonkette, February 4 Eduwonk, February 6 Ken DeRosa, February 6 Robert Pondiscio, February 7 Joanne Jacobs, February […]
Teaching about what humans do
I’ve been tagged by Craig Smith, who asks, Why Do You Teach and Why Does It Matter? after reading Dr. Crazy’s explanation of why she teaches literature. This comes on the heels of Stanley Fish’s boldly hedonistic Epistle to Philistines and the expansion on this, last night’s Epistle to Dumb-Ass Colleagues. (Okay, the posts were […]
Credentialism, human capital, and ahistoricism
I recently had occasion to review a very small slice of the economic literature on the value of education, and it struck me that while both sociologists and economists struggle with arguments about the value of education in contrast with the value of a credential, they do so almost in mirrored ways. The economic argument […]
What would Nation X do?
Today, my morning paper had a column by Susan Taylor Martin, Finns set teachers free, with enviable results, discussing the secular, largely-standardized-testing-free Finnish schools that have enviable student outcomes by almost any measure. On the one hand, this argument is extraordinarily tempting: See what the Finns do? We need to do that: provide substantial social […]
Whose values would be valued in a neoliberal education world: Michelle Rhee’s or Marc Dean Millot’s?
Marc Dean Millot explains why he’s a critic of DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee (hat tip), and here’s the key paragraph: What I see in Chancellor Rhee’s approach, abetted, permitted or endorsed by Mayor Fenty, is 1) insensitivity and arrogance towards others, combined with 2) a reliance on fear to control staff, and 3) a considerable […]