This post is a recent essay by Brian Klass. Here's a link to the original. It's on an issue I've explored on this blog, the current dysfunctional policy emphasis on efficiency at the expense of effectiveness. Klass's term for efficiency is optimization. The core of the story is that resilient and effective social and economic … Continue reading Brian Klass — Against Optimization
I published this op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News four years ago, in the early stages of the pandemic. Here’s a link to the original. It now appears as a chapter in my new book, The Ironies of Schooling. If anything, its relevance is even more apparent now than it was in 2020. Consider … Continue reading The Triumph of Efficiency over Effectiveness — in Both Public Health and Public Schooling
I published this op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News two years ago, in the early stages of the pandemic. Here’s a link to the original. If anything, its relevance is even more apparent now than it was in 2020. Consider the enormous shipping and trucking backlogs that are clogging up our economic system, and … Continue reading The Triumph of Efficiency over Effectiveness
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 