Treading Water for a Generation
Want to know how far down the road to serfdom we’ve travelled? Look no further than the Op-Ed page of the Wall Street Journal! Those of...
Saturday Linkage: Slacking Toward Corporatism
This week’s theme jumped out at me from my computer monitor, so I feel compelled to share it with you. First up, this public school is brought to you...
Discourse & the Realm of the Thinkable
I’d like to apologize to readers for my recent excursions beyond education policy and issues related to schooling , but this week’s...
Taking Cues From Stalin: The American Enterprise Institute
Today’s news offers yet more evidence to back up the central claim from yesterday’s post… The political machinery of think tanks, policy institutes, and foundations created by the Captains of...
Feedback Loops & The Corporate ‘Center’
The very serious thinkers running our Banana Republic are all aflutter today over the AP/Stanford University poll which finds that a large majority of Americans think we should make it easier...
Where Psychometrics Goes To Die
My own experience in the private education sector has provided me with a clear insight into the dark side of our increasingly corporate approach to education policy, but I...
Follow Up on International Comparisons & China’s Education Model
The New York Times can surprise you every now and then by publishing informed debates on issues by informed observers [as opposed to a motley crew of think tank...
Global Education Comparisons
The pearl-clutching continues over the PISA assessment scores for 2009 as the public sphere both laments our educational failures and continues to argue for “more accountability dammit”! However,EdWeek posted a...
An Obvious Question
Valerie Strauss poses what should be an obvious question emerging from the hoopla over the latest PISA scores… Since the nation has been on the assessment-based school reform bandwagon for over...
The Canard of Educational Competition in the Global Economy
One of the most frustrating elements of public discourse on education policy is the repeated referencing of how the US is falling behind in science and math. For the...