The politics of incrementalism
In the last few hours, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the political viability of incrementalism in school reform. Tyack and Cuban argued for it in Tinkering toward Utopia (1995), and while that’s still very popular, their argument didn’t win the day in school reform. The AYP requirements of No Child Left Behind look […]
Arrests in murder case of Ronald Stem
Three teenagers have now been arrested in the murder of my former student Ronald Stem. Two were arrested in April and one more was arrested this past week. One known suspect is still at large.
What I did on my summer vacation
Well, this last week I did something unusual on a vacation. I went to prison… More in the extended entry…
Accountability jingoists and nihilists
I’ve been searching for a while for how to explain the Manichean-style debate we’ve been having on accountability, and I think I have it. Those who advocate for high-stakes testing as currently wrought (or who seek an intensification of it) are accountability jingoists. As with foreign-policy jingoism, accountability jingoism is belligerent in tone and identifies […]
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By Sherman Dorn on June 4, 2006
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