In “Austerity” Mark Blyth Traces the History and Politics of a Dangerous Idea
Mark Blyth took a career detour to be a co-editor of The Transformation of Great American School Districts. So it was with great anticipation that I read his new book, Austerity. I recommend it to educators as a valuable corrective to the belief that boosting educational standards will increase the life chances of American students […]
Learning 2.0 So Far: Breakthrough Ideas and Political Deadlock
This spring, I posted Learning 2.0, a short essay on how we might reshape school reform to recognize the tremendous changes in information processing and their implications for teaching and learning. I’ve been gratified by the response. The original post has been reprinted and passed along, which is what I had hoped, and over the […]
Why Now? The Dark Days Possibilities of Learning 2.0
[A revised version of this post appears in Thoughts on Public Education.] As I was thinking about writing this post, my attention wandered (yes, it does) to Stephen Sawchuk’s Education Week story about Monica Iñiguez, a 4th grade teacher in Los Angeles Unified who has received her third budget-driven pink slip in six years of […]