Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

WEEKEND QUOTABLES

by Mike Klonsky

Maybe they mean this Dewey...

Newbie instructors too often emerge from ed school stuffed with the ideas of everyone fromThomas Dewey to Brazillian Marxist theorist Paulo Freire (author of "Pedagogy of the Oppressed") - but clueless about how to help kids learn. (N.Y. Daily News editorial bashing schools of education)

Mass. testing madness

MCAS has a decidedly negative effect on the humanities and the arts. With the excessive

Ship of fools

by Mike Klonsky

Here's the latest from the Ownership Society

Even as Arne Duncan is predicting 300,000 teacher layoffs in what he describes as an "education catastrophe," OS cheerleaders Jay Mathews and Mike Petrilli are breaking out their pom-poms.