Class Struggle: October 18, 2009 - October 24, 2009
My obit for Jerry Bracey
My obituary for the great media critic and insightful author Gerald W. Bracey, who supplied a ton of great quotes to a generation of education writers, ran Friday. Here it is....
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October 23, 2009; 5:50 PM ET |
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21st century skills: another disappointment
I am trying NOT to write off the 21st century skills movement as a sham, but its leaders don’t make it easy....
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Jay Mathews
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October 23, 2009; 7:00 AM ET |
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Is America's best school too good for grade point bonuses?
Note to readers: Thursday the Post launches its new Local Living section, which will include a bonus Class Struggle column each week from me. That means my weekly Thursday Extra Credit column answering reader questions is no more, since...
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Jay Mathews
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October 22, 2009; 2:00 AM ET |
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Duncan to ed schools: End 'mediocre' training
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, in prepared remarks circulating in advance of a speech Thursday, accuses many of the nation's schools of education of doing "a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the realities of the 21st-century classroom." My colleague Nick...
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October 21, 2009; 9:00 PM ET |
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Gerald W. Bracey, education's most acidic pundit, dead at 69
Education Week just reported that Gerald W. Bracey---Jerry to his many friends, including me---died peacefully in his sleep sometime Tuesday night. This was a shock to me. I didn't know he was sick. He had sounded fine a week...
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October 21, 2009; 4:30 PM ET |
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Is cutting college to three years a good idea?
Newsweek's cover story, "The Three-Year Solution," by U.S. Senator and former Education Secretary and University of Tennessee president Lamar Alexander, has the great virtue of forcing a rethink of how we have been doing higher education for more than...
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October 21, 2009; 11:52 AM ET |
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Making the grade not about race, but culture
The Post's brilliant and provocative teacher-essayist, Patrick Welsh, did it again Sunday in his Outlook section piece, "Making the Grade Isn't About Race. It's About Parents." Read it. You will find not only a vivid description of what motivates...
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Jay Mathews
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October 20, 2009; 11:29 AM ET |
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Test that makes U.S. look bad may not be so good
Politicians and pundits are using results from the Programme for International Student Assessment|(PISA) tests to say our kids are falling behind the rest of the world, so maybe we should get some PISA practice. Brookings Institution scholar Tom Loveless, a...
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October 19, 2009; 6:00 AM ET |
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Solve These International Test Math Problems
Here are a few samples for readers whose appetite for math was whetted by my Monday column on international test comparisons:...
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October 19, 2009; 5:55 AM ET |
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