This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build. JH August, 2005
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
The Incredible Lightness of the Washington Post
Looking for the truth, the whole truth, or nothing of the truth? If the latter, have a look at this piece from the Post on the NSTA-Inconvenient Truth controversy. This could have been written for Anderson Cooper's 360--one of those she said, he said, and zero investigation by the reporter. In short, modern journalism the way we most often see it: cheap, very profitable, and entirely ineffective in informing the public.
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