Teachers and Students Still Trapped Going Up the Down Staircase
By John Thompson. Bel Kaufman’s Up the Down Staircase (1965) is the teachers’ and students’ Catch-22 (1961). She captures the fecklessness of bureaucracies, especially those damaged by a culture of powerlessness. She also illuminates the best single antidote to the situational ethics that dominate dysfunctional education systems – the moral consciousness of children. During Kaufman’s 15-year high
9-28-14 All NEW Living in Dialogue - What Happens When Education Serves the Economy?
Home - Living in Dialogue: What Happens When Education Serves the Economy?By Anthony Cody. The post I wrote a month ago, critiquing Marc Tucker’s “new accountability system” has opened up a long overdue discussion of the economic foundations and goals of 21st century education reform. In his two responses, to myself and Diane Ravitch, and to Yong Zhao, Tucker has chosen to only defend his plan’s u
