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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Learning from Wall Street

Sunday, September 21, 2008

I’ve learned a few things about education policy from Wall Street the past few days. The first thing I see is that the “education establishment” has made a serious mistake in trying to defend and justify itself in the face of its many critics. When A Nation at Risk was published 25 years ago, we [...]

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Anchorage Rallies Against Palin

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Hundreds of people in Anchorage turned out for an anti-Palin protest about two hours after she spoke there.

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The Memory Hole

Saturday, September 13, 2008

It was bound to happen. This week, during a discussion with my class about September 11, I found out that their memory of the attack on the World Trade Center is pretty vague, and that the memory of it may be as “real” to them as World War II – something that happened a LONG [...]

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Teacher Narratives

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

A few weeks ago I was contacted by Ken Bernstein (aka teacherken at Daily Kos) who wanted to know if I’d be interested in contributing to a teacher blog published by the NY Times called Lesson Plans. My first piece is online now. It’s a short-term group blog, which will feature “online personal narratives” from [...]

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Absentee Governor

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Still fixated on this Sarah Palin business. It’ll pass. Soon, I hope. This was in the paper today: PALIN INTERVIEW: In a phone interview with the Anchorage Daily News Saturday, Gov. Sarah Palin was asked if she is ready to become president, should the need arise. “I am … I am up to the task, [...]

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