In my last post, I proposed this graduation requirement for high schools, colleges and universities: A proven ability to engage in respectful discourse with those with whom we disagree on fundamental issues; and a consequent openness to the possibility of changing one’s position. Just in case you aren’t convinced of the wisdom of this, please [...]
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CIVIL DISCOURSE; A NEW GRADUATION REQUIREMENT FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES A proven ability to engage in respectful discourse with those with whom we disagree on fundamental issues; and a consequent openness to the possibility of changing one’s position.This ability has always been important in a democracy where each of us has the power of [...]
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AIM HIGH MAGIC OBSERVED I VISITED THE St. Paul’s site in Oakland on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 As always the day starts as one community, gathered in a circle so that every person is visible and present to every other person. The circle, with 2 staff members in the center facilitating and this day, [...]
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The next several posts will feature Aim High, a superb summer program at the intersection of academics and youth development for low income Bay Area middle school youth. Disclosure: I am on the board and have been for many years because as a life-long educator I know excellent teaching and curriculum and the value of [...]
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When I first heard the term supply-side economics, I assumed that what was to be supplied as the engine of economic health was great education. Silly me not to know that what my interlocutor was talking about so enthusiastically was minimum taxation and maximum deregulation. He was very vague about what was actually to be [...]
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Isn’t it amazing that a whole range of professional and business people, some in thier first year of employment, can earn more than the people who taught them how to read, write, compute and think?
Tags:David Leonhardt.Education reform·leadership·teachers' pay·Teaching·The New York Times
“We can no longer afford to accept a culture in which a kid one day out of law school makes more that the person who taught him how to read – anymore than we can accept a culture in which a mediocre teacher gets re-hired year after year.
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Everyone knows who Babe Ruth was. Millions watch the Jerry Rices of the world catch footballs and the Lance Armstrongs race through France. But how many people can name the winner of an award won by a teacher in their own community – if there is actually such an award? As a person who taught [...]