Brief gloss on pragmatism vs. sociology of knowledge
I’m now done with drafting everything in Accountability Frankenstein except one section, on the problem of expertise in society. For a variety of reasons, I’ve been thinking about this in connection with John Dewey, Walter Lippmann, Karl Mannheim, and William James. And I’ve figured out the difference between the sociologist of knowledge and the pragmatist […]
More on teaching to the test
Jal Mehta (guest blogger for Eduwonk) continues the blogule discussion of teaching to the test with a lament about the inability to follow through on the New Standards Project desire for high-quality tests that were not easily susceptible to test-prep. For some reason, this strikes me as very similar to the laments I hear about […]
Reading of the day on graduation rates
Strongly recommended (if belatedly found!): Charles Hirschman, Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, and Joseph Willhoft, How Many Students Really Graduate from High School? The Process of High School Attrition. This working paper is a revision of a poster session I saw at the Population Association of America meeting in March, and it’s very solidly done, including a clever […]
Paul Peterson to head education-policy transition group for Crist
Via Naked Politics comes word that Paul Peterson will be heading up a “citizen review panel” on education policy during the transition to the Charlie Crist administration in Florida. Most of the other figures named by Crist as transition heads are known to him personally and come from the state. To be honest, I’m surprised […]
Happy Thanksgiving
By Sherman Dorn on November 23, 2006
This holiday, like so many, is proof that we make our own traditions, even when the historical genealogy isn’t as clear as young children are told. In my household, the pumpkin pie is in the oven, the (homemade) cranberry sauce is in the fridge, the (homegrown) sweetpotatoes are cut up, ready for cooking, and the […]
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