She then went on to discuss the startling, new positions of education scholar Diane Ravitch, once an advocate and now a critic of testing, charters, standards, and school closings. Incredibly, the Globe has still not followed the lead of … [Read more...]
ROUNDING THE GLOBE 5: One Op Ed You Will Not Be Reading
This is one op ed you won't be reading in the Boston Globe. The Globe decided to "pass on it," as they have on most other dissenting education policy pieces over the past 17 years. What is the sound does an op ed page make without even one … [Read more...]
ROUNDING THE GLOBE 4: SURPRISE-NOT!
This blogger just can't get any rest, because the hits just keep on coming. There were two education policy pieces at the Globe on Saturday, March 6, one semi-surprising, one utterly predictable. No, regrettably, they did not involve Diane … [Read more...]
ROUNDING THE GLOBE 3: Twelve Underperforming Schools To Be ‘Shaken-Up’ in Boston
Ho-hum. It was the usual one-two punch in the Globe today. James Vaznis reported on the Boston superintendent's announcement that 12 'underperforming" Boston school will be shaken-up. Boston superintendent Carol Johnson announced that five … [Read more...]
ROUNDING THE GLOBE 2: How Ravitch Got Disappeared in the Boston Globe
Yesterday, I launched a continuing feature on this page called "Rounding the Globe," which will be my best effort to keep the Globe's feet to the fire when it comes to editorial, op eds, and reportage about education policy. I will be … [Read more...]
ROUNDING ‘THE GLOBE’
ROUNDING 'THE GLOBE': A Teacher's Perspective on Ed Reform The attack on public education-and on the meaning of education itself-though the promotion of for-profit charters and the mandating of excessive testing was facilitated by two … [Read more...]
A TEACHER REMEMBERS JD SALINGER
The deaths of Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger removed from the planet two men-and two minds-that I relied on during my 35-year career as a high school history teacher. Passages and quotations from Zinn's People's History were sprinkled … [Read more...]
OPEN LETTER TO THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE ADMINISTRATION & FACULTY OF THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION - JANUARY 4, 2010 - THREE CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASK YOU TO SPEAK OUT The Harvard Graduate School of Education pursues the goal of training … [Read more...]