This post is a piece I just wrote. I tried unsuccessfully to publish in five different venues and gave up, so I'm posting it here. I focus on an issue that I've been thinking about for quite a while: How to understand the core business model that governs American universities. The answer is in the … Continue reading Universities Give Away Knowledge and Sell Degrees
This post is a paper I presented in 2008 at the annual meeting of the research group on the Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium. The theme of the papers for this meeting was "Proofs, Arguments, and Other Reasonings: The Language of Education." The paper was published in a … Continue reading Why We Obsess about the Goals of Schooling even though Schools Continually Fail to Meet These Goals
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 