Jaime Escalante, one of the best known and most accomplished classroom teachers in the U.S. has died. What lessons can we learn from his life in pushing forward with educational reform? I think there are three — at least two of which will likely require a major restructuring of U.S. education to achieve on a [...]
Archive for March, 2010
What Jaime Escalante Means for Educational Reform
Posted in general on March 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
National Ed Tech Plan a Major Step Forward
Posted in general on March 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Thank heaven there are adults in the White House. The draft National Educational Technology Plan made available this week represents a highly informed, sophisticated, bold, and thoughtful approach toward improving U.S. education with new media. In that it reflects the tremendous amount of talent, expertise, and experience of the plan developers, as well as the [...]
Upending the School Reform Debate
Posted in general on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Every movement has its true believers, and the Bush-initiated educational reform movement — which led to No Child Left Behind and a huge emphasis on state standards, testing, school choice, and market-oriented reforms — is no different. Nobody lent more weight to these policies than Diane Ravitch, considered by many the leading educational historian in [...]
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Posted in general on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve started to post most of my short notices, including links to my own new papers and other new things I come across, over on Twitter instead of here. Follow me there.
