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ROUNDING THE GLOBE 5: One Op Ed You Will Not Be Reading

March 10, 2010 By bill-schechter 4 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-globe, ed-reform, education-policy, globe, op-ed, public-schools

ROUNDING THE GLOBE 4: SURPRISE-NOT!

March 8, 2010 By bill-schechter 8 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: diane-ravitch, ed-reform, education-policy, jeff-jacoby, rhode-island-teachers

ROUNDING THE GLOBE 2: How Ravitch Got Disappeared in the Boston Globe

March 3, 2010 By bill-schechter 6 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-globe, diane-ravitch, education-policy, education-reform, media-analysis

ROUNDING ‘THE GLOBE’

March 2, 2010 By bill-schechter 6 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-globe, ed-reform, education-policy, globe

A TEACHER REMEMBERS JD SALINGER

January 29, 2010 By bill-schechter 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: catcher-in-the-rye, education-policy, salinger

OPEN LETTER TO THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

January 26, 2010 By bill-schechter 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: charters, education-policy, harvard, merit-pay, national-standards, testing

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