Domesday and depressing news
The Domesday Book is online, a wonderful boon to European history teachers everywhere. And New York teen Kiri Davis has replicated Kenneth Clark’s 1940s doll work in today’s Manhattan, with depressing results. (Jan. 24, 2014 note: You can watch Davis’s short documentary on Vimeo.) I hope it sparks additional discussion about the work of the […]
Prewritten lesson plans in Miami
Matt Pinzur’s Miami Herald story yesterday about lesson plans that the Miami-Dade system wrote for every grade, every subject for the beginning of the year (the first 10 days) is interesting. (Sample second-grade lesson in PDF.) The theory of action is that having pre-written plans will help teachers at the beginning of the year who […]
Will UCU respond to academic-freedom poll?
Expect a response this week from the University and College Union to the Times higher education supplement poll of academics in the UK indicating a large minority felt under pressure to limit their expression in teaching or research. The online article did not solicit any comment from the UK’s higher ed union, but I expect […]
A depressed AP history teacher?
Over at Revise and Dissent is Kevin Levin’s description of an AP history workshop, wherein he learns how prepared the AP history teachers of next year truly are (not). I think Levin may be wrong in his interpretation of why many of his fellow teachers were unprepared—secondary history and social studies teachers in Virginia (PDF—see […]
Want to get a copy of Accountability Frankenstein without paying?
I’m still on chapter 2, which has ballooned beyond the size I anticipated. I’m at the fun stage, filling in holes that largely involve writing what I already know. It’s akin to putting the last pieces into a jigsaw puzzle. There are three substantive chunks left and then I need to redraft the chapter conclusion. […]