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 […]
The higher-ed split among conservatives
One could probably have predicted today’s Inside Higher Ed article describing how several conservative academics criticized the current push for quantitative assessment of higher ed. I didn’t, but if you did, give yourself a pat on the back. The article describes a panel on Friday sponsored by the American Academy of Distance Learning (more about […]
Florida’s 931 draft social studies standards: half a mile wide and two inches deep
Here's a look at the draft Florida social studies standards and benchmarks as a whole. By the numbers Let's first look at the scope of the standards, or rather the specific benchmarks in the draft (the more specific expectations of what students are supposed to be learning). By grade: Grade Benchmarks K 28 1 […]
Teachers and the public sphere
Partially drafted in Chicago Sunday evening, July 13, and revised July 17: I’m listening to Susan Ohanian at the moment, talking to a group of about 50 AFT delegates and others. Ohanian is a well-known opponent of NCLB and academic standards and was invited to speak at an event sponsored by the AFT Peace and […]