History games
While my fall teaching schedule may change, I am currently slated to teach the undergraduate history of ed course I last taught in spring 2007. That semester’s class worked well enough, but I want to raise the level of engagement with key issues, and I’ve been thinking about constructing games around key tasks in a […]
Graduations as cultural artifacts
Jan Hoffman has an interesting piece in today’s New York Times on eighth-grade graduations. This is in response to Barack Obama’s Father’s Day speech, when he mentioned and criticized the opulence of middle-school graduations. I spoke with Hoffman in the middle of the week as she was scrambling to put together material for the story, […]