Sketching a course 2
Stuff to expose students to The difference between the rhetoric of federalism/local control and the (maybe chaotic) reality of education reform (multiple sources) Politicization and education as part of citizenship (multiple sources) Curriculum as projection of values (Kliebard) Finances and reform rhetoric (multiple sources: need an argument more than pat descriptions)
There it ain’t — a rap on The Quick and the Ed’s knuckles
In The Quick and the Ed today, Kevin Carey boldly overclaims: The Times is reporting that, at the behest of the teachers unions, last-minute language was snuck into the New York State budget providing that “teacher[s] shall not be granted or denied tenure based on student performance data.” There’s really not much one can add […]
Sketching a course 1
In the next few days I need to carve out time for journal editing responsibilities as well as writing a symposium paper I’d promised to be finished by Friday but probably won’t be done until next Tuesday or so. (There, Laura! I’ve made that commitment publicly.) But since I’m waiting for a student to show […]
Should schools borrow the best or the worst from business?
Today, Florida TaxWatch issued a set of recommendations for cost cutting in education (hat tip), and one quotation put in a separate box stood out for me, from Florida TaxWatch’s Center for Educational Performance chair David Mann: Education should borrow from business practices:… As Good to Great author Jim Collins might ask, that’s all fine […]
So I’m on a list… welcome to Washington Post readers
By Sherman Dorn on April 7, 2008
Welcome to those who are visiting after seeing Jay Mathews and Ken Bernstein’s Favorite Education Blogs of 2008 column. As you’ll see from the entry made earlier today, it’s a wonderful irony that I’m on a selective list the same day that I criticize such lists. Heh! In any case, Mathews’s blurb is better than […]
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