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Billionaires’ Love Affair with School Reform with No Accountability (Part 1)

In 1969, when I directed the Office of Staff Development for the Washington, D.C. schools, I applied for a grant of $10,000 from the Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation to give District of Columbia teac

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Teachers or Researchers: Whose Judgments about Classroom Practice Matter the Most?

After many years teaching high school social studies and then university graduate students, I documented the history of teaching. In this research and writing, I have struggled with a dilemma peculiar

The Attribution Error and School Reform

In the 1979 film “Being There,” Chance (Peter Sellers) goes from an illiterate, TV-watching, not-too-swift gardener for a wealthy Washington, D.C. family to the confidant of a dying financial tita

What Putting on a Musical Perfomance Shows Us About Japanese Education (Ema Ryan Yamazaki)*

“First graders in a Tokyo public elementary school are presented with a challenge for the final semester: to form an orchestra and perform “Ode to Joy” at a school ceremony. The film examines th

Getting High School Students To Think Is Like Waxing an Old Jalopy

Corporate leaders want high school graduates who can size up situations fast, think on their feet, and solve problems. Parents and voters want the next generation to think clearly as they enter a worl

Contradictions between Classroom and School Cultures (Part 2)

In Part 1, I described a visit to a Southern California high school’s four social studies classes where students displayed values of doing the least amount of work to pass these academic courses. Fo

Contradictions between Classroom and School Cultures: (Part 1)

One of my former colleagues in anthropology once told me that he gags every time he hears the word “culture.” Why? Because “culture,” he said, has come to mean everything under the sun and has

Pick Your Metaphor: Is School Reform More Like a Pendulum or a Hurricane?

The metaphor of the pendulum hides much more than it reveals. Consider that a clock pendulum swing returns almost to the same spot it left. Although there is motion, there is little change. Continuity

Joe, Ralph,and Edna: The Job of Principal

The 1989 film Lean on Me portrays Eastside High School principal Joe Clark in Paterson, New Jersey rescuing a school mired in violence and poor academic performance. In one dramatic scene with actor M

More Cartoons on AI

Talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) has surely mushroomed in the past two years since a small San Francisco company made ChatGPT available. Other chatbots (e.g., Alexa from Amazon; Gemini from Goo