New education acronym needed: YASBA (yet another silver-bullet approach)
Summertime, and everyone’s all a-Twitter over Eau de Me, You the City, Corps Será, and other MOOC platforms (MOOC = massively-open online courses, though they aren’t). ((For employees of these enterprises upset with my making fun of your names, please remember that your own choices gave me the straight line. And the folks at Digital […]
An illuminating mistake by Tyler Cowen
As the common quip goes, remember when teachers, police, and firefighters set up a system of fraudulent real-estate financing and ran our economy into the ground in 2007-08? Me, neither, but guess who’s paying now for it? Back in mid-June, economist Tyler Cowen argued that the reason why teachers were being attacked politically and paying […]
Nation of patriots, nation of fandoms
In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s schooling blog Sunday, Pelham City superintendent Jim Arnold explains his distrust of the Common Core, referring to old patriot Thomas Jefferson: Common Core is a standardized national curriculum. Why is this problematic? From an historical context, a centralized school curriculum serves the goals of totalitarian states. Jefferson warned us about that. […]