September 11, five years later
Personal recollections Five years ago, I remember heading to class just before 10 on a Tuesday morning and stopping by the gathering of people looking at the monitor that someone had changed to CNN. Some time before, a colleague had knocked on my office door while I was screening the PBS documentary School. She was […]
Education reading for next week
The next report in Arthur Levine’s project looking at colleges and schools of education will becoming out next Monday. Educating School Teachers will be the subject of a forum at the National Press Club September 18, 10-11 a.m. (EDT) I expect the report to be released simultaneously on the Education Schools Project site. And it […]
NCLB reading for the week
As suggested by Eric in one of Jenny D.’s Hechinger Institute confab entry, here’s a recommendation for Hayes Mizell’s speech in 2003. Mizell’s explanation of NCLB’s origins (“For decades, local policymakers and school officials turned a blind eye to a set of vexing problems in public education”) assumes there was no such thing as accountability […]