Poor Edumacation In CD1 Democratic Debate
Education. We spend a lot of time arguing about this. Wave after wave of education reformer has appeared, each with their own unique (and often uniquely wrong) method of “solving” education. And boy, if you cared at all education issues, the CD1 Democratic debate was not your night. Public Schools The Journal‘s Edward Achorn asked [...]
Labor Strike Could Delay School Start in NK
Summer break might be extended in North Kingstown as school staff is considering striking to fight for school custodians whose jobs were outsourced to a private corporation earlier this summer. “At this time it is unclear if school will open on time,” said Pat Crowley, an official with the National Education Association of Rhode Island, [...]
Defending American Schools from ‘Reformers’
It was interesting to me to learn about the article by Paul Farhi in the American Journalism Review called “Flunking the Test“, which blows apart typical reporting on education as essentially taking so-called “reformers” views at face value. Mr. Farhi points out that not only is the idea of an “crisis in education” false, (recalling arguments advanced [...]
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