Archive for March 9th, 2005
Transforming Education: Prelude
This post is part of an experiment. I know that it’s good blogging form to keep posts short, if possible. But on some topics, like education, I have way too much to say. So I broke this very long post up into 5 different sections, and named them all thematically. I’m going to [...]
Transforming Education: Other Discourses?
I was cruising through my feeds after reading what Chris had to say about incrementalism, revolution, and educational change. He asked (what turned out to be, for me) an extremely provocative question about what educators are afraid of. One of the things that I wondered about was the dichotomy he set up with the terms [...]
Transforming Education: A Language Lesson
NPR ran a story about biased language in the media. Brooke Gladstone interviewed Michael Tanner from the Cato Institute about the Bush administration’s use of the word ‘reform’ with respect to the president’s social security agenda. The gist of this story is that many news organizations have instructed their reporters to refrain from calling it [...]
Transforming Education: A Noisy Classroom
It’s not what you think. It’s not the kids that are making all the noise in my classroom. There are thousands of people putting their two cents-worth in on the subject of ‘what’s up with education?’ and I’m feeling buried under all their pennies.
We hear a lot in the media about education reform. Teachers get [...]Transforming Education: A Challenge
The New York Times reported a speech by Bill Gates, who wants to throw his $15,000,000.02 into the conversation.
High schools, he said, leave most students unprepared for college and for today’s jobs. “When I compare our high schools with what I see when I’m traveling abroad,” he added, “I am terrified for our work force [...]
