Archive for Education Policy & Politics

Class Matters. Why Won’t We Admit It?

I encourage you to read this excellent Op Ed piece, “Class Matters. Why Won’t We Admit It?” from the New York Times (11 December 2011): www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/opinion/the-unaddressed-link-between-poverty-and-education.html. Witten by Helen Ladd, Duke University professor of public policy and economics, and Edward Fiske, former education editor at the NY Times,the Op Ed piece summarizes a longer report [...]

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Diane Ravitch: The Death & Life of the Great American School System

I wrote this as part of my Masters in Educational Leadership, through San Jose State University School of Education. Here’s SJSU Prof Gary Stebbins when she came to Santa Clara University and spoke; he’s holding my copy of Ravitch’s book, which he got signed for me. (I would have attended myself but had a schedule [...]

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