education

  • I'm perhaps irrationally angry about how much coverage that Gloucester High School "pregnancy pact" story got last week all over the web, merely based on the statements of the high school principal, and often sensationalizing the fact that one of the fathers was a 24-year-old homeless man, as if that was the worst thing of all. It turns out that the principal is now "foggy in his memory" of how he heard about it. TIME could have covered that story much more responsibly. (3) #
    6/23/2008
  • An English instructor at an adult education college addresses the issue of whether "the idea that a university education is for everyone is a destructive myth."
    America, ever-idealistic, seems wary of the vocational-education track. We are not comfortable limiting anyone’s options. Telling someone that college is not for him seems harsh and classist and British, as though we were sentencing him to a life in the coal mines. I sympathize with this stance; I subscribe to the American ideal. Unfortunately, it is with me and my red pen that that ideal crashes and burns.
    I have a copy of Deschooling Society on my shelf that I've been meaning to read for years now. (6) #
    6/2/2008
  • Steven Pinker and Alison Gopnik, both cognitive scientists, on how they think college education could be improved. I have a bit of a cog-sci background, so I'm interested in their points of view, but I think I'm more sympathetic to Pinker's suggestion. (0) #
    11/16/2005
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