Damnit, I missed another enemies list!
Apparently Fenwick English published an "enemies list" in the Fall 2010 UCEA Review (the article starts on p. 13), something listed "enemy" Rick Hess properly ridiculed, and then ridiculed again with a longer explanation of why enemies lists are fundamentally foolish. It's been a busy 10 days or I'd have gotten around to this earlier, because this […]
Power and choices: LGBTQ youth
Via Cath Lugg, a more realistic video about bullying of gay and lesbian youth: The young woman in the video talks about the reality of bullying and the problems with superficial "it gets better" videos. It gets better when you're an adult and if your choices improve so you're not surrounded by bullies and bystanders. […]
Education behind bars to remove bars
A break from election discussion: David McKay Wilson has an interesting discussion of correctional education in an article in Nov/Dec 2010 Harvard Education Letter. That means education of teenagers who are in detention facilities. Wilson points to the (non-test-oriented) provisions of NCLB that apply to education behind bars: certification requirements for teachers, tracking of students […]
Matt Bai’s instant-cliche machine
There's something that seems remarkably treacly about Matt Bai's instant punditry on the heels of the Republican takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives: "If there is a lesson in all this for both parties, perhaps it’s that merely piling up votes on Election Day doesn’t confer on you a mandate for any ambitious agenda." Okay, Mr. […]
Historian’s prediction wrong (school uniforms version)
Six weeks ago I predicted that Pinellas County schools in Florida would implement the superintendent's proposed mandatory uniform policy, despite the lack of rigorous supporting research. I was wrong. According to the St. Pete Times' reporting, Pinellas is "backing off plans for mandatory uniforms." The school board concluded that the main problem was not the lack of […]