Thank you Pet & Dog shaming for the inspiration. I suggest you make your own as well.
Schools as Community Centers
February 3, 2013 By 1 Comment
My friend, Dr. Mark Naison, wrote a beautiful piece a while ago about his vision for education, which he graciously allowed me to reprint. I loved his idea of schools as community centers. I wanted to talk to about that for a minute: I’ve worked in schools that began using their personnel and resources to […]
Carl, Get Your Gun
January 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Distractions Are Us, Progress Tells Us So!
November 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A friend posted this article from the Nov. 1, NYT to his Facebook page the other day: “Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say.” I’ll note that “a version” of this was published as “For Better and for Worse, Technology Use Alters Learning Styles, Teachers Say” in the print edition. You decide if the […]
Schools (Don’t?) Matter, Nor Does Creativity
October 4, 2012 By 1 Comment
Okay, I’ll confess to being less than tactful most of the time. But I gotta tell you, I’m pretty sick of one particular complaint that I hear (rather, read) again and again on education sites and FB pages dedicated to parent organizations against testing regimes in public education: “Your stealing my child’s creativity!” First, there’s […]
Students vs. Students?
August 31, 2012 By 2 Comments
#Public #schools in #crisis?
September 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Although I admire and agree with the perspectives in this piece, is it really helpful to constantly invoke “crisis” rhetoric? Identifying schools in crisis, while mentioning poverty as a primary cause, to me implies that schools are meant to solve poverty. Am I right? Should we look to schools to ameliorate poverty, or the other […]
Brown v Board of Education after 55 years
May 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Fifty-five years ago today the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously issued Earl Warren’s opinion in Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, in which it stated unequivocally that Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. And yet even after 55 years the promise of the Brown decision we still have not overcome what is […]
Past and Present: Eugenics, Standardized Tests, and the Politics of School Reform–Hoosier connections and challenges
[Editor's note: An early draft version was posted in error. This has been corrected.]*Guest Post by John Loflin, Education-Community Action Team. johnharrisloflin@yahoo.com Past and present: Eugenics, standardized tests, and politics of school reform: Hoosier connections and challenges “If such a thing as a psycho-analysis of today’s prototypical culture were possible such an investigation would […]