October 3, 2010 - Sometimes I read something that just stops me in my tracks. Makes me think about what’s really going on. Causes me to wonder why so many people just don’t get it.
Just days after the defeat of Mayor Adrian Fenty… Continue reading
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September 23, 2010 - Democracy can, indeed, be devastating — at least for those who do not understand that the will of the people is, in fact, the bedrock of this free society. Last week’s election in the District of Columbia has evoked a… Continue reading
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August 27, 2010 - For quite some time there’s been murmuring about girls getting too many advantages. Echoing mostly from the caves of misogyny, though sometimes threaded with claims of learned research (ah, “data!”), the party line says that out-of-control feminism duped schools into… Continue reading
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August 8, 2010 - An article in today’s Washington Post magazine… looks at the “new experiment” in single-sex classes at the Imagine Southeast Public Charter School in DC. The headline is unfortunate: “Separate but Equal: More Schools are Dividing Classes by Gender.” Critics of Continue reading
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November 7, 2009 - Many great comments continue to come in on my original blog in this series Who Will Teach? Students in Early Childhood Education offer these thoughts on the discussion:
Makai Kellogg… writes:
“Yesterday after leaving my preschool to go to Trinity Continue reading
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November 4, 2009 - The faculty in Trinity’s School of Education have responded collectively and individually to my previous blog on the state of teacher education and Secretary Duncan’s remarks. While they posted their response on the “comments” section of the last blog, … Continue reading
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November 1, 2009 - Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave a provocative address… on the future of teacher education when he appeared at Columbia Teachers College on October 22. Everyone involved in Trinity’s School of Education — all faculty and students here, our graduates Continue reading
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May 16, 2009 - 
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In my previous two blogs, I have predicted that the Class of 2009 will enter a world in which the whole idea of the news media will be radically different from at present, that citizen activism will be more diffuse Continue reading
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December 18, 2008 - “Education Reform” is one of the prime embattled fronts in the culture wars in this country. News of President-elect Obama’s choice of Chicago School Superintendent Arne Duncan as the new U.S. Secretary of Education… brought the more recent skirmishes to Continue reading
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January 20, 2008 - 
…Almost 40 years have passed since that terrible April day in 1968 in Memphis when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. That’s one more year than the entire span of years he had on this earth. He’d be 79 Continue reading
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