From now until February 1, Cambridge University Press is offering free access to the top ten articles that have appeared in the History of Education Quarterly, following a poll of its members. These articles are drawn from sixty volumes of HEQ. Take a look. As Jack Schneider, the editor of the HEQ, and I would attest, the study of the history of education is fascinating.
Very cool! Thanks for letting us know.
Thank you, Diane. I have forwarded this list to the National Literacy Association blog.
CBK
Wonderful!
The ed reform “response to the pandemic” is identical to the ed reform agenda prior to the pandemic:
https://www.educationnext.org/covid-19-could-be-moment-we-turn-to-school-choice-as-road-to-equal-opportunity/
100% “choice”. They offer NOTHING AT ALL to students who attend public schools.
If Biden hires these folks we are going to be getting the same we’ve gotten for the last three presidents- nothing for students who attend public schools.
How is this fair to public school students? The entire ed reform policy apparatus puts students in public schools second to their ideological and systemic goals of privatizing public education. No one serves students in public schools. They’re treated as a barrier to be gotten past to reach ed reform goals of privatization.
Is it really too much to ask that someone in government actually has an interest in serving students in existing public schools? That’s a radical notion? Our kids get nothing while these folks re-engineer the existing public systems to meet their ideological requirements?
They’re “reinventing schools” instead of doing anything practical or useful for the vast majority of students who currently attend public schools.
And we’re all supposed to accept paying thousands of people for this. You know, in furtherance of their policy goals.
There are public school students who will graduate high school having spent their entire public school tenure under US Presidents and a US Department of Education who offered them nothing of practical or useful value and instead spent whole terms telling them their public schools suck and they should all enroll in a charter or private school.
Ludicrous. These people don’t work for public school students. They work for the proposed privatized system that they haven’t managed to enact yet. Our kids are not in their hypothetical privatized system. They’re in public schools.
“Some worry that charters undermine district-operated public schools by attracting the most engaged families. Fortunately, that has not happened so far”
That’s it. The single mention of public school students in ed reform plans to “reinvent schools”
They reassure us they won’t actually damage or harm public schools or public school students, at least not deliberately.
That’s what they offer students and families in public schools. They won’t deliberately do harm while they’re privatizing the system. For this we’re supposed to hire and pay thousands of them and our entire federal policy apparatus is wholly captured by them.
Who in government serves students in existing public schools? Anyone? I know our schools are unfashionable but since 50 million students attend them one would think we could get one or two elected advocates in DC. You know, if there’s time left over once privatization efforts are prioritized and completed.
Thank You for info. I’ll be making good use of articles.
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