This post is a paper I presented as part of a panel on the politics of teacher education at the annual meeting of the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) in 2005. It was published that same year in the Journal of Teacher Education. Here’s a link to the original. The paper draws in part … Continue reading Life on the Margins: Why Teacher Ed Has So Little Impact on Ed Policy
This post is the revised version of an invited lecture I gave in 2003 at the 25th annual meeting of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE) in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was later published in Paedagogica Historica; here’s a link to the PDF. It’s all about the love affair between education schools and John … Continue reading Progressivism and Ed Schools: An American Romance
This post is a brief essay I wrote in 2003 for The Navigator, a publication of the Center for Education Policy Analysis as the USC Rossier School of Education. Romance, Realism. and the Future of Ed Schools David F. Labaree American education schools have long had a romance with the rhetoric of pedagogical progressivism, and … Continue reading Romance, Realism, and the Future of Ed Schools
This post is a new piece I just wrote as the preface to the Chinese translation of my book, The Trouble with Ed Schools. For me, this was a nice opportunity to accomplish two things in looking back on this work, which was published in 2004. One is to show how the book came about … Continue reading Reflections on “The Trouble with Ed Schools” for the Chinese Edition of the Book
This post is a paper I published in Journal of Teacher Education in 2010. Here’s a link to a PDF of the original. This is a summary of the argument: Teach For America is a marvel at marketing, offering elite college students a win-win option: By becoming corps members, they can do good and do well at the same … Continue reading Teach for America and Teacher Ed: Heads You Win, Tails We Lose
This post is a piece I published in Academe (the journal of AAUP) in 1999. It provides an overview of the argument in my 2004 book, The Trouble with Ed Schools. I reproduce it here as a public service: if you read this, you won’t need to read my book much less buy it. You’re welcome. Also, looking … Continue reading Too Easy a Target: The Trouble with Ed Schools and the Implications for the University
What with huge problems hanging in the balance right now, like the future of American democracy and the world order, this might be a good time to focus on a little problem, one mostly of academic interest. The issue for today is — wait for it — the trouble with American ed schools. Sounds a … Continue reading An Unlovely Legacy: The Disabling Impact of the Market on American Teacher Education
This post is my response to student comments about a piece I wrote called "We're Producing Academic Technicians and Justice Warriors: A Sermon on Educational Research, part 2." Both were published in the Swiss journal Bildungsgeschichte: International Journal for the Historiography of Education. The "We're Producing" paper was in turn a follow-up to another piece I … Continue reading Response to Student Comments on My “Academic Technicians and Justice Warriors” Essay
I'm posting this as a public service. Read it and you won't need to read -- much less buy -- my 2004 book with the same title. It provides an overview of the book's argument, which was originally published in Educational Foundations in 1996. Here's a link to the original. This is an overview: Everyone … Continue reading The Trouble with Ed Schools
This post is a chapter from my book, How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning. It's a revised version of a paper that was previously published in 1992 as “Power, Knowledge, and the Science of Teaching: A Genealogy of Teacher Professionalization” in Harvard Educational Review. Here's a link to that version. The HER version of … Continue reading Rethinking the Movement to Professionalize Teaching: A Story of Status and Control
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 