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Mis-Remembering Title IX
The debate over the 2005 reinterpretation of college athletic applications of Title IX tends to avoid acknowledging the truth: the higher-ed athletic application of Title IX is only one part of what Title IX’s prohibition on gender discrimination touched, and it’s probably the least important large chunk of Title IX’s effects. In the decade before Title […]
The question that Reading First’s Chris Doherty never asked
(Disclosure: I have had colleagues who are involved in phonemic-awareness or phonics-based reading research. It pains me to see anyone I know involved even tangentially in conflict-of-interest problems, let alone people I highly respect. No, I don’t know the principals from Oregon who are at the center of this, and I’m not going to be […]
Education history and school renewal
Today’s brief N.Y. Times story, Massachusetts Acts To Save the Country’s First Public High School, is about efforts to revive academics in the first public high school, which opened in the 1820s. The school is troubled, far from its origins as part of the 19th century expansion of the public sphere into tertiary education English […]
Unions and masters degrees
Kevin Carey asks, Why do unions support pay steps for masters degrees? As an historian, I think the question is a bit backwards, but then I think the same of many other policy questions. After all, bureaucratically-oriented salary schedules existed long before the UFT’s successful NYC strike in the 1960s and still exist in plenty of districts […]
Of Diane Ravitch and presentism
In an amended entry earlier today, I noted my being a Michael Katz student and somehow still not having fits at the sight of Diane Ravitch’s name. (As far as I’m aware, Michael doesn’t, either.) That doesn’t mean that I agree with her substantive scholarship, and I’ll repeat here a 2004 contribution I made to […]