Sunday, September 30, 2012

Charter schools? It's about politics ...

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In a recent New York Times Op-Ed piece, Bill Keller notes that the 1989 fatwa against author Salmon Rushdie was never about relig...
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Congratulations, Alberta teachers! You've won an all-expenses-paid trip to...Fort McMurray!

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During the recent Québec election, sovereigntist Amir Khadir was asked what his party offered to federalist voters. He replied, "For An...

An uncommon sense about education

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My 6 am taxi ride to the Nashville airport included an early morning educational eye opener, delivered by a self-proclaimed Virginia mount...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

The Québec Student Movement Has Won

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Today, in the aftermath of Québec's dramatic recent election , Premier Pauline Marois announced that she was cancelling the Liberal go...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Rick Santorum, Democracy and Education

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This post comes from guest blogger Zach Fox, a masters degree candidate at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. In a season of disheart...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Commerce, Choice and Poverty (and the Chicago Teacher's Strike!)

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This post comes from guest blogger Luke Freeman, a masters candidate at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College. Last week, I heard a ...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Note to my Alderman about the Chicago Teachers Union Strike

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Even though I’m one of the many working parents inconvenienced by childcare this week, I spent most mornings out on the picket lines support...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Hard Facts about the Chicago Teachers Union dispute

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This piece from the Chicago Sun Times provides a clear, level-headed account of the issues dividing Rahm Emmanuel and the Chicago Teachers ...

Is narrow vocationalism back? A Deweyan op/ed in the New York Times

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In the New York Times, Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University, argues that the narrow vocationalism which Dewey fought against is ba...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Conflicting goals, caring parents

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This post comes from guest blogger Shara Bellamy, a masters degree candidate at Vanderbilt University "I've given up on her. I...