Correcting the facts on so-called RTTT “side deals”
In Wednesday’s paper, St. Petersburg Times reporter Ron Matus relied on the sloppy language “some say” to spin a mountain out of a molehill about county-specific MOUs between school boards and local FEA affiliates. In the article as well as two blog entries Wednesday and Thursday, Matus stated that there were a number of counties […]
Quips on Race to the Top and Common Standards
From late morning until a few minutes ago, I’ve spent the day under a cloud of variously-intensive headache pain. I’m free of it but also exhausted, so in the zeitgeist of evidence-free punditry about RTTT and Common Standards, here are some thoughts: If my memory and reading are correct, none of the national press outside […]
The value of college II
An offhand reference I made last week to Lisa Delpit is nagging at me this evening. It’s the part of Other People’s Children (1995) where she talks about the existence of codes of power (what others would call tacit knowledge) and how one of the jobs of good schools should be to lay those bare, […]