{"id":3970,"date":"2011-10-13T22:38:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T02:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2011-10-14T00:11:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T04:11:06","slug":"breaking-with-the-past-as-an-old-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=3970","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Breaking with the past&#8221; as an old idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his interview with CNN this week, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said (in part),<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new realities are technology has changed our lives forever, the world&#8217;s moving faster, we&#8217;re in a globalized economy &#8230; and yet the institutions, mostly public, that we&#8217;ve asked to be able to equip us have been <em>mired in the past<\/em> (emphasis added; transcription from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/blogs\/gradebook\/content\/jeb-bush-public-schools-mired-past\">St. Petersburg Times education blog<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a long history of the idea that we need to break with history, and evangelists of education reform have used this argument on a consistent basis for more than a century. I&#8217;m tempted to coin a Yogi Berra-ism, but I&#8217;ll settle for pointing out that it is the mirror image of the standard conservative argument that we shouldn&#8217;t mess with legacy institutions and social patterns because they have stood the test of time. ((Yes, that means Jeb Bush is not really a conservative in the older meaning of the word.)) And that utopian justifications for whatever self-anointed reformers think of as radical often are unjustified by what happens in the process of reform.<\/p>\n<p>More on education technology tomorrow or over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his interview with CNN this week, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said (in part), The new realities are technology has changed our lives forever, the world&#8217;s moving faster, we&#8217;re in a globalized economy &#8230; and yet the institutions, mostly public, that we&#8217;ve asked to be able to equip us have been mired in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-florida","category-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-122","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}