Archive for April 2008

Reply to G.

April 30, 2008

Note to Ben Thompson

April 29, 2008

Obama and the Liberal designation

April 22, 2008

Why School?

April 8, 2008

A Nation at Risk (25 years later)

April 8, 2008

There are many reasons to improve American schools, but declining achievement and international competition are not good arguments for doing so. Asking schools to improve dramatically without support from other social and economic institutions is bound to fail, as a quarter century of experience since A Nation at Risk has demonstrated. (Richard Rothstein, A Nation [...]

The fourth-grade instrumental-music program

April 6, 2008

Thoughts on the dropout “problem.”

April 5, 2008

Classroom learning in comparison is wasteful and ineffective

April 4, 2008