The Problems with America's Best Teacher Training Programme
If there is one certainty within educational research, it is that there is no single distinct and best way to teach.
Daniel Buck
· 9 min read
Education
A collection of 391 posts
What They Don’t Teach You at the University of Washington’s Ed School
With little practical training or preparation, graduates of the program begin their teaching careers woefully unprepared.
Nick Wilson
· 12 min read
When a Question of Science Brooks No Dissent
Back in December 2012, six days after a mass shooting ended the lives of 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown
Myles Weber
· 14 min read
Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee
How can students advocate for speech codes and still believe that freedom of speech is secure?
Pamela Paresky
· 7 min read
A Professor Speaks Out: How 'New Left' Orthodoxy Is Failing a New Generation of History Students
The opposing position is that by engaging with other ideas, you make your own ideas stronger.
Kevin Vanzant
· 17 min read
Federal Funding, the First Amendment, and Free Speech on Campus
Public colleges and universities function just like every other public institution—as an extension of the government itself.
Lauren Cooley
· 7 min read
In Defense of New York City's Elite Public High Schools
Those of us who believe in the merit principle, and who have seen firsthand how these schools can improve the lives of the students
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 7 min read
Why Elites Dislike Standardized Testing
It is absolutely true that the SAT is the reason this scandal occurred.
Daniel Friedman
· 9 min read
How Ed Schools Became a Menace to Higher Education
To anyone acquainted with the history and quality of American ed schools, this should come as no surprise.
Lyell Asher
· 23 min read
My Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement
Part of the problem in discussing this is that the meaning of words, as used in some-but-not-all Social Justice-speak, often differs from common usage.
Lee Jussim
· 7 min read
Public Education’s Dirty Secret
My small classes faced a large photograph of Barack Obama displayed proudly in front of the classroom over the title “Notre Président.”
Mary Hudson
· 20 min read
The Meaning of the Self-Destructive Strike at WSU
History suggests another explanation, which has been left unexamined that radicalized union leadership is part, perhaps the primary part, of the problem.
Evan Osborne
· 8 min read
Liberal Orthodoxy and the New Heresy
Complaint sometimes reflects an honest desire to be able to ask the unaskable, speak the unspeakable, and ponder the imponderable.
Erik Gilbert
· 9 min read
Adventures in Adjunctopia
Among academics, it is considered a badge of honor to be paid in copies, or not at all. After all, you can’t put a price tag on genius!
Steve Salerno
· 6 min read
Are the Classics Complicit in White Supremacy?
No reason to believe that classics as a field has had any particular tendency towards white supremacism either in the present or in the past.
James Kierstead
· 9 min read