Krash Course with P.L. Thomas
* I plan to start a series of brief posts dedicated to the wise and persistent plea from Stephen Krashen for short and accurate commentary on education; thus, "Krash Course."
Krash Course #1
Journalism is failing U.S. public education. See two examples from Education Week:
Growing Gaps Bring Focus on Poverty's Role in Schooling
This piece perpetuates as experts self-proclaimed reformers who have no or little experience as teachers or scholars. Even when journalists explore a valuable topic—the weight of poverty on education in the U.S.—that examination is ruined by the context (see THIS discussion of the same phenomenon at The New York Times). Journalists need to seek educators and scholars who are credible.
AERA Erasing Line Between Scholarship and Partisanship [blog by Rick Hess]
Krash Course #1
Journalism is failing U.S. public education. See two examples from Education Week:
Growing Gaps Bring Focus on Poverty's Role in Schooling
This piece perpetuates as experts self-proclaimed reformers who have no or little experience as teachers or scholars. Even when journalists explore a valuable topic—the weight of poverty on education in the U.S.—that examination is ruined by the context (see THIS discussion of the same phenomenon at The New York Times). Journalists need to seek educators and scholars who are credible.
AERA Erasing Line Between Scholarship and Partisanship [blog by Rick Hess]
