Category Archives: education
Pedagogy of the Oppressor
This ed-school bestseller is a utopian political tract calling for the overthrow of capitalist hegemony and the creation of classless societies. Teachers who adopt its pernicious ideas risk harming their students—and ironically, their most disadvantaged students will suffer the most. Continue reading
The Crisis and Politics of Higher Education
The Higher Education Act is the very model of bureaucratic legislation: top down, complex, requiring interpretation of endless details by everyone concerned, and placing power over local things in remote beings whose very job titles are indecipherable, and who, also, have almost no direct contact with the actual things being accomplished. Continue reading
KIPP vs. the Teachers' Unions
Unsatisfied with the stranglehold they have on the nation’s regular public schools, teachers’ unions have long sought to gain access to charter schools, most of which operate free of the workplace restrictions (and job protections) that the unions have won for their members. Now a battle is underway in New York City, where a national symbol of the charter school movement is struggling to keep unionization at bay. Continue reading
Obama's Hypocrisy
Perhaps hard-bitten cynics aren’t surprised by the quiet ruthlessness with which this administration has deep-sixed a popular D.C. school voucher program. But for everyone else–or, rather, everyone else not in bed with teachers’ unions–its conduct has to come as a total shock. Continue reading
Duncan's fundamental dishonesty
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan argues that we have an obligation to disregard politics to do whatever is “good for the kids.”
Well then, one wonders, why did his Department of Education bury a politically inconvenient study regarding education reform? And why, now that the evidence is public, does the administration continue to ignore it and allow reform to be killed? Continue reading
The New Book Banning
It’s hard to believe, but true: under a law Congress passed last year, the federal government has now advised that children’s books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be unlawful to sell or distribute. Merchants, thrift stores, and booksellers may be at risk if they sell older volumes, or even give them away. Continue reading
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