educational policy
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This weekend it occurred to me Mark Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve is an allegory for educational policy, practice, and reform. An extract from Adam’s diary on Monday: This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don’t like
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It is important to me that my son value and see meaning in going to school. Regardless of how much my wife and I work with him academically at home, it is “school” as an institution – both physically and conceptually – that I want him to value and respect. So I was very concerned
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This year’s PBS Teaching and Learning Celebration featured a session presented by Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch. Their blog, Bridging Differences, has become a favorite resource of mine for thoughts on education. I enjoy their insights and the somewhat intimate tone of the letter writing format they have adopted. At the conference, in what was
Vincent Young 