Category Archives: Ed Reform
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Notes Introducing a Debate Unit on Transformative Technologies
This is a little backgrounder on Shelley’s Frankenstein that I created for a Powerpoint presentation to a high-school Debate class. We were starting a unit in which students would be debating the merits of various emerging transformative technologies. In preparation … Continue reading
Essential Reading | Book Review
Diane Ravitch’s Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools In these dark days of Trumpism, reasons for optimism are the spars to which the rest of us, the passengers on the … Continue reading
Stopping by School on a Disruptive Afternoon
after decades of test-driven education “reform” Whose schools these are, I think I know. His house is near Seattle though. He will not see me stopping here to watch what kids now undergo. My better angels think it queer to … Continue reading
Ditzy DeVoid and IQ45, Two Songs
“Oh Donnie Boy,” or “Orange Is the New Slack” (to the tune of the oh-so-appropriate “If I Only Had a Brain”) I just while away the hours A-tweetin’ in my bower, Consulting with TV. I don’t care for cogitating, I … Continue reading
Charters, Vouchers, and Segregation
A breathtakingly good summary of the sordid history of using charters, vouchers, and private schooling to effect de facto segregation: https://southernspaces.org/2019/segregationists-libertarians-and-modern-school-choice-movement
