The Loeb Rule and pugilistic anti-unionism circa 2011
In the 1910s, the Chicago Board of Education cut the legs out from under the first successful teachers union, the Chicago Teachers Federation (AFT Local #1), by forbidding teachers from joining unions. The Board of Education fired dozens of teachers (about half of whom were CTF members), and the CTF pulled back its membership from […]
Why Sherman’s blog is scarce this month…
Blogging has been interrupted by life and the metastasizing of work. I assure you, this isn't my preference (in terms of not having time to blog). But I am overdrawn from my account at the Bank of Chronos, and the bank has usurious interest rates. (Yes, the entry title scans to a certain Pat Cooksey […]
Larry Cuban honors David Tyack
Anyone who has read Tinkering toward Utopia may recall Cuban's language in today's blog entry as familiar from the prefatory material in Tinkering. David Tyack retired a number of years ago, as did Cuban, and he was honored at last fall's History of Education Society meeting at the end of the presidential address by Jon […]
“Teachers college” was always a misnomer
Kevin Carey writes about the dilemmas of regional state universities that used to be teachers colleges. There are real dilemmas of upward institutional trajectories/ambitions, and in many cases, there are institutions that have moved in the way he has, such as Illinois State University, where the city of Normal, Illinois reveals its origins as Illinois […]
Sheldon and Jeremy Stern reply
A few days ago I responded to the Fordham report assigning letter grades to state social-studies standards (from the perspective of the reviewers' beliefs about history curriculum). The report authors, Sheldon and Jeremy Stern, replied by email through Mike Petrilli, and you can read their response at the bottom of my original entry.