Disruptiness in K-12: historical perspectives
In his blog recently, Jay Greene summarized the general disruption/creative-destruction argument for privatization and quasi-privatization efforts: you can't easily turn low-performing schools around, but you can replace them with new schools, so that's what we should do in large school districts that Greene labels as obviously failing. There are pieces in his brief post that tie into […]
Disruptiness in higher ed vs. deep tweaking
Matt Yglesias on Twitter: No subsidies and few regulations, so yoga classes will soon be replaced by streaming video. #nottrue. Sara Goldrick-Rab: Technology breaks the iron triangle between access, quality, and costs — it makes it more possible to offer a high-quality lower cost accessible education. I’m on-board with that and it may be one thing […]
James Heckman on NPR
Maybe I’m stuck in a backwater, but I have not yet seen anyone link to Friday’s Planet Money podcast interviewing James Heckman about preschools. I recommend it.
“Give me the money or I shoot my foot!” and other political theories of education reform
So in the face of Congressional gridlock, the U.S. Department of Education is planning an end-run on Congressional reauthorization of ESEA, using statutory language giving the Secretary of Education waiver authority. Rick Hess is sure this blows up the constitution. It's very possible that a court could theoretically rule that waiving all sorts of requirements goes […]
Duke English professor falls into historiography hole
In late April, Duke English professor Cathy Davidson wrote in a Times Higher Ed column, So last century, …the institutions of work and education developed over the past 150 years. People had to be taught the division of labour in all its manifestations, and public education was designed for that purpose. Virtually all the features that […]