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The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Mike Rose notes that no one in power is asking fundamental questions about the purpose of education and whether much-hyped reforms might do more harm than good.

Posted on Mar 19, 2010 READ MORE  |  318 COMMENTS



White House / Pete Souza

Race to the Top of What? Education Is About More Than Jobs

We need to reclaim a broader vision, for we have terribly narrowed our thinking about school.

Posted on Feb 18, 2010 READ MORE  |  24 COMMENTS



AP / Leslie E. Kossoff

21st Century Skills: Education’s New Cliché

What’s new about them? They sound like the skills one would have gotten from a good 20th century education—or from a lot further back than that.

Posted on Dec 8, 2009 READ MORE  |  26 COMMENTS



AP / Rich Pedroncelli

Blinded by Reform

The Obama administration has committed serious money to education reform, but many of the Department of Education’s big ideas are flawed.

Posted on Oct 21, 2009 READ MORE  |  77 COMMENTS



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Business Goes to School

Business leaders are eager to meddle in education but rarely take responsibility for the root of education’s problem—economic despair and mind-numbing mass media.

Posted on Sep 14, 2009 READ MORE  |  12 COMMENTS



AP / David Kohl

Education ‘Miracles’ Don’t Survive Scrutiny

What miracle talk and magic-bullet solutions share is the reduction of complexity, of the many levels of hard, creative work necessary to make schooling successful in the United States.

Posted on Aug 13, 2009 READ MORE  |  62 COMMENTS


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