Founding Mothers!~
…and others. It’s the title of an old book edited by Alan Sadovnik and Susan Semel on the women who came before us in education (Palgrave, 2002. What a crew! Each chapter is written by a different author, and between them they cover Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Marietta Johnson, Caroline Pratt, Margaret Willis, Margaret Haley, Elsa Flagg Young and many more. Willis was a name I didn’t remember and ended up feeling the closest to. She saw the Ohio University lab school as a place to explore “democracy as a way of life.” It was, she believed
Medical vs School Reform
Medical vs School Reform
I ‘m hoping to start a conversation about Atul Gawande’s interesting article, Big Med, in the August 13/20 New Yorker. Actually the author goes from restaurants to hospitals—and I wonder how and why (and why not) it applies to education “reform”. Anyone out there who wants to tackle it with me? deb
