Paul Krugman has it all wrong in a recent NYTimes op ed piece. “If you had to explain America’s economic success with one word,” he writes, “that word would be ‘education.’” Op Ed writers, even Nobel Prize winners such as Paul Krugman, ought to avoid writing about subjects about which their own knowledge and experience [...]
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Paul Krugman has it all wrong.
October 10, 2009Schooling and Education, 3
May 24, 2009Schooling is easy. Education is hard. Schooling takes place in a school, when a classroom, teacher, and kids are provided, usually at tax payer expense. Education, aka learning, may take place anywhere, but only if the learner is interested and excited either by the teacher or the subject matter, or, best of all, by both. [...]
Nine Truths about the Public Schools
February 22, 2009There are truths about public school education that need to be said. The endless debate about the schools, the equally endless series of reform efforts mostly ignore these truths Truth number one. Public, as in public school, doesn’t mean public. The word, a poor choice from the beginning (common was better but not much) probably [...]
Schooling like war is expensive
February 5, 2009I’ve just read a Boston Globe article, and learned therein that the Boston schools are facing big job cuts, in particular the loss of 900 positions including 403 teachers (out of some 6500 in the district). And I assume, given the dismal state of our economy, that this sort of thing is happening everywhere, most [...]
