William Torrey Harris warned against “hothouse” education in the 19th century, and the New York Times is on it!
Science writer David Kohn has an op-ed in this morning’s New York Times, Let the Kids Learn Through Play. For historians, the first three words ring alarm bells: Twenty years ago, kids in preschool, kindergarten and even first and second grade spent much of their time playing… [emphasis added] Great: another Myth of the Golden Age. Maybe […]
Deist school reform and teacher evaluations
As my colleague Audrey Amrein-Beardsley pointed out earlier today, there is a battle royale coming up this week in New York, with a hearing on the changes in state teacher evaluation policy mandated by this year’s budget agreement in Albany. Amrein-Beardsley sees the issue focused on value-added measures, in part because that is the obsession […]