Education history and school renewal
Today’s brief N.Y. Times story, Massachusetts Acts To Save the Country’s First Public High School, is about efforts to revive academics in the first public high school, which opened in the 1820s. The school is troubled, far from its origins as part of the 19th century expansion of the public sphere into tertiary education English […]
The Loeb Rule
A few days ago, I asked if any readers knew the history of early teacher unionization and the Loeb Rule. In comments, CCPhysicist asked for an explanation, so here it is, briefly: Until 1917, there was a forceful teachers union in Chicago, the Chicago Teachers Federation, led for a number of years by Margaret Haley. […]
Violent attacks on educational institutions
UNESCO has a report out on Education under Attack (PDF), violence directed at schools, teachers, students, and staff. It’s a quick and very chilling read.
Bad labor history award of the week
This week’s historical illiteracy award goes to the Education Partnership for a phrase in its report Teacher Contracts: Restoring the Balance. I’ll let others address the merits, because this one is an education historywhopper: Today’s teacher contracts reflect an earlier era in America: the age of the rise of industrial unions, during the 19th and 20th […]
Nicholas Winset
An emerging academic freedom case at Emmanuel College is about a somewhat iconoclastic accounting adjunct who followed the college’s advice to talk about Virginia Tech last week and then was fired for what happened in the classroom. At first glance, I wouldn’t want to be an Emmanuel official defending their decision.