Comparative studies in special education: a brain-bursting exercise
This evening, I’m finishing up my reading and note-taking on non-U.S. history of special education placement for a review article on inclusion. I’m writing a small section, and I know it would come to this: someone who knows just about the U.S. (me!) has to search for and read the secondary literature on comparative perspectives. And […]
Why teaching isn’t like law or medicine
The teacher certification debate at edspresso this week is interesting, and Ed Sector staffer Kevin Carey lays out the best of the anti-certification arguments. Then out pops this: The fact that teacher certification is regulated by the government also makes it unduly subject to political pressures—one reason, I suspect, that the standards for entering the teaching […]