Not hypocrisy
Liam Julian is chiming in with the Wall Street Journal today in implying that Senator Obama is hypocritical for sending his children to private schools while voting against voucher programs. I suppose you could claim that Obama would be hypocritical if he had used a voucher program and then voted against them, but he and […]
Strata, the game
Today, I’m in limbo: I finished my summer class with an all-day session yesterday, but the papers aren’t due until tomorrow at noon, so I have a day to recuperate from being on my feet for 8 hours. (I also picked up my daughter from the airport, and we waited around for a while because […]
Review of “Accountability Frankenstein”
As far as I’m aware, Teachers College Record recently published the first review of Accountability Frankenstein. From the comments by Dick Schutz, “If you are in any way concerned with the status and future of US el-hi education, you owe it to yourself to read this book.” You can read the review to see where […]
Transportation and education
While Andy Rotherham and Greg Forster are battling it out over school transportation policy, I’ll use that opening wedge to talk about the “hydrogen economy” and similar piffles. Yes, there’s an education policy angle here; just wait for it. (In fact, there are at least two.) As far as I can tell, there are two […]
Crisis rhetoric, attention seeking, and capacity building
Berliner and Biddle’s The Manufactured Crisis was the independent reading choice of several students in my summer doctoral course, and as they have been writing comments on the book in the last week, I have been thinking about the split retrospective view of the 1983 A Nation at Risk report, produced by the National Commission […]