Florida’s draft social studies standards
Florida Department of Education staff have kindly sent me a text version of the draft social studies standards for Florida (XLS), which I have reworked into an Excel spreadsheet with two versions, one sorted by discipline and standard and another sorted by grade level. (Note: to do the sorting, I had to create standard codes. […]
Families and schools (Father’s Day edition)
I’m recovering from the ritual that millions of parents have been through before me: taking a teenager out for the lane-changing experiment. My daughter earned her Florida learner’s permit 9 days ago, started driving classes at a local high school last week, and has been driving short jaunts with her mother or me every day […]
I was manifest(o)ly wrong
Several days ago, I echoed Steve Diamond‘s argument that the dueling manifestoes this week are related to “the battle for the soul of Barack Obama.” Larry Mishel took me to task in comments, and I will now publicly apologize, since David Brooks has now made the same point Diamond and I did. In his Manichean […]
Shared responsibilities for children I
I had intended to blog about the responsibilities of schools for a few weeks, since Harry Brighouse responded last month to April’s Richard Rothstein-Rick Hess(-and-others) debate and Matthew Yglesias responded a week later to Ezra Klein’s comments on education and the economy. I’ve been swamped by other things and am writing this first entry (of […]
The politics of education platforms
Steve Diamond is right: the public pronouncements of sweeping education approaches are all about a “battle for the soul of Barack Obama on education policy.” That is true whether you’re talking about the Bolder Approach announcement Monday, a Klein-Sharpton alliance that will be announced today, or what have you. (Ed in ’08 counts, though it […]