Archive for July, 2008
Believing in Education as Cure-all
Unlike David Brooks, I don’t believe that Education is The Biggest Issue - as he conceives it, anyway. Brooks says, “America’s lead over its economic rivals has been entirely forfeited, with many nations surging ahead in school attainment,” because of an “educational slowdown” around 1970, which resulted in too few skilled workers to meet the [...]
Shock Resistance
I’m reading Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine, and I see the standards movement in US education policy now less as an isolated case, that is, isolated to the US and education in particular, and more connected to events in the larger world of politics and economics. It’s good to have a frame of reference for what [...]
Reunion
It’s been family reunion time for me the last couple weeks. I was paying minimal attention to the blog until I discovered that it went offline a few days ago. Long story short: something happened with the subdomain I set up for it, and any attempt to locate it produced a “Page Not Found” browser [...]
