| It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and... | |
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| It's no secret that I'm not a fan of constructivist and child-centered teaching practices.One of the main reasons why I don't like these practices is that they are even less efficient than... | |
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| Diane Ravitch is touting National Standards again. So is KIPP's Michael Feinberg.I don't understand the love for standards, especially the national variety.Imagine your ideological enemies being the... | |
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| I'm a big plan of efficiency. So instead of analyzing all the bad education plans out there, I'm going to point out the shortcomings of the best -- Andy Rotherham's and Sara Mead's policy paper... | |
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| I've come back from my unannounced hiatus to discover that we have a brand new president.A president that is for change. And, apparently, hope as well.I "hope" that none of you wasted any time... | |
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| The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) does a noble job of identifying much of the junk science research that plagues education research and masquerades as real research. The WWC, however, is not without... | |
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| A new DI fluency building program, Differentiated Reading (PDF), was released today and is intended to be used with low performers who are reading at low fluency rates (less than 45 words a minute).... | |
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| Go check out this lengthy thread over at educationwonkette.Academic guest posts a somewhat controversial, albeit politically-correct, view on race and education, gets challenged on it by commenters,... | |
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| The New York Times reports on soon-to-be AFT presidente-for-life, Randi Weingarten's "new" vision for American education:Can you imagine a federal law that promoted community schools? schools that... | |
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| I made it through about ten minutes of Chris Lehmann's keynote speech at this year's NECC entitled Progressive Pedagogy and the 21st Century. Nothing you haven't seen before, but here's an embedded... | |
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