Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Do Schools Kill Creativity?

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

What Arne Duncan means for educational policy--the view from Chicago

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(Cross-posted on Education Policy Blog ) President-elect Obama's choice of Arne (pronounced "arnie") Duncan for education secr...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Thoughts on Obama's "Consensus Choice"

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Here are links to the two statements representing the opposing “camps” in the current educational policy debate. First, the “Education Equa...
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Monday, December 15, 2008

Duncan a Consensus Choice: Obama Retains Tension between Competing Policy Camps

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The Associated Press today reports in an article that Arne Duncan, selected to lead the Education Department in the Obama administration, i...

Arne Duncan to be named Secretary of Education

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According to Lyne Sweet, in a column for the Chicago Sun Times , President-elect Obama will name Arne Duncan, head of Chicago's Public S...
Sunday, December 14, 2008

More on Obama and the Battle of the Education Reformers

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The split in educational policy frameworks within the democratic party that was discussed last week by David Brooks is widening and getting ...
Friday, December 12, 2008

David Brooks on Tough and Tender Educational Reform

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In an important column in the New York Times on December 5th David Brooks surveys the educational policy frameworks competing for President ...

Academic Capitalism Watch: More Gold Standard Research

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The New York Times reports that Wyeth, the big pharma company, has developed a novel system for producing medical research. The Times artic...

Media Shenanigans in Québec?

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Last month, I explained the origins of Québec's new ethics and religious culture course, and I noted that it seemed to be on the cusp of...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Rousseau's children in Nebraska

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A couple of weeks ago, Nebraska revised its “safe haven” law. ( Nebraska Revises Child Safe Haven Law: NYTimes ) Nebraska was the last of t...
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