This post is an essay by Frank Fukuyama that was published recently in Persuasion. Here's a link to the original. And here's a link to a PDF of the original. Here he explores an argument I strongly support, namely that liberals have forgotten that we used to deploy the powers of government to build things. More … Continue reading Francis Fukuyama — Our Hamiltonian Moment
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 the the of the love affair between … Continue reading Progressivism and Ed Schools — An American Romance
This post is a classic essay by David Cohen. The version I'm reproducing here comes from a conference paper he prepared for the Benton Center at University of Chicago. Here's a link to the original. An earlier and shorter version was published as a chapter in 1988 in a book edited by Philip Jackson, Contributing … Continue reading David Cohen — Teaching Practice: Plus Ca Change
This week's post is a piece I presented at a conference in Switzerland and then published in an obscure book in 2010. Here's the original version. And now it's a chapter in my new book, The Ironies of Schooling. It's a story about the contest for dominance in US education in the early 20th century … Continue reading How Dewey Lost
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
I first presented this paper at the conference on “The Century of the School: Continuity and Innovation During the First Half of the 20th Century,” Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, September, 2007. A revised version was published in a book edited by Claudia Crotti and Fritz Osterwalder, Das Jahrhundert der Schulreformen: Internationale und Nationale Perspektiven, 1900-1950, … Continue reading Limits on the Impact of Educational Reform
This week's post is a piece I presented at a conference in Switzerland and then published in an obscure book in 2010. Here's the original version. It's a story about the contest for dominance in US education in the early 20th century between pedagogical and administrative progressivism, between John Dewey and a collection of figures … Continue reading How Dewey Lost
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 