Commentary
NY Regents: Stop the madness!
Thank goodness for Fordham's Peter Meyer, a master at turning policy gibberish into plain English.
Thank goodness for Fordham's Peter Meyer, a master at turning policy gibberish into plain English.
Last week we kicked off our series of achievement analyses, an annual look at how students in Ohio's Big 8 urban districts and charters are performing.
Of the many theories that have overtaken educational policy and practice, few have been as influential as the belief that every child learns in his or her own way (see Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind:The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, 1983, which set the ?one size fits all? world on fire).?
?We're raising young people who are, by and large, historically illiterate.'' * ? David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author