I obviously write a lot of blog posts here, as well as one book, each year on education issues. In addition, I write a fair number of articles that appear in other publications like The Washington Post, ASCD Educational Leadership, Education Week, The Huffington Post and others (not to mention my weekly teacher advice column in Education Week Teacher).
Here’s a list of them that appeared in 2011 (and you can see all the articles I’ve written here):
- Videotaping teachers the right way (not the Gates way)
- Freire’s Learning Sequence
- Using Visuals To Teach Text (podcast & transcript)
- Super Book Of Web Tools For Educators (ESL chapter written by me)
- Five Questions For Diane Ravitch
- 4 Concerns About Michelle Rhee
- What ‘Star Wars’ Can Teach Educators About Parent Engagement
- 5 Questions for an Exceptional Principal
- The Michigan Fish Test and school reform
- Helping Students Motivate Themselves
- Helping Students Motivate Themselves (Washington Post version)
- Involvement or Engagement?
- “Finishing the School Year Strong”
- Shortcuts, School Reform and Private Foundations
- Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching
- What’s really wrong with ‘parent trigger’ laws
- Why schools should not grade character traits
- Icarus & School Reform
- The Best (and Worst) Education News of 2011
- Education-Related Predictions for 2012 (Huffington Post)
- 10 education predictions for 2012 (Washington Post)
Larry —
With respect to your first prediction for 2012 picked up in the Washington Post today, I think we will continue to see a lack of courage when it comes to education reform discussions. Advocates seem to fear hurting the thing they love by naming it and lapse into name calling what we don’t like as “corporate”, “corp reform”, “no excuses reform”, “ed deform”, “greEdreform”, or even the pun “Rheeform.”
I recognize that some on the progressive left are starting to use the term “social context reform” but that seems overly broad.
It does not matter to me what the positive things we all want are called but we’ll make better use of our time if we pick some terms and run with those.
Right now, we seem better at coming up with names for things we hate than things we love.