This post is a recent blog entry by Larry Cuban. Here's a link to the original. He is making a strong case against the human capital rationale that has grounded the school reform movement in the last 50 years. The theory is that the primary social contribution of public education is its ability to stimulate … Continue reading Larry Cuban: School Reform Since “A Nation at Risk” Has Done Little to Promote Economic Growth
This post is a brief essay by Charles Mann that appeared recently in The Free Press. Here's a link to the original. His argument is about how we don't appreciate all of the great benefits of the civilization we currently inhabit, which is grounded in the enormous collective accomplishments of our ancestors. Here's how he … Continue reading Charles Mann — We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
In this post I reprint a piece by Ricardo Hausmann (an economist at Harvard's Kennedy School), which was published in Project Syndicate in 2015. Here's a link to the original. If you can't get past the paywall, here's a link to a PDF. What I like about this piece is the way Hausmann challenges a central … Continue reading Hausmann: The Education Myth
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 