“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.