This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build.
ICYMI: Scopes Centennial Edition (7/13)
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Last week we sailed past the 100-year anniversary of the Scopes trial,
arguably the grand kick-off for a century of culture panic in this country.
There we...
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