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David Labaree
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Emeritus Stanford professor. History & sociology of US education. Last books Ironies of Schooling and Being a Scholar. Love good writing. Blog at http://davidlabaree.com.

David F. Labaree is a historian of education and Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University.

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Education 63%
Political science 20%

Eli Stark-Elster — School Is Way Worse for Kids than Social Media

The post is an essay by Eli Stark-Elster from his Substack.  Here's a link to the original. His argument is that -- although there's a lot of talk now about the damage that social media are doing to children and major efforts to ban…
Eli Stark-Elster — School Is Way Worse for Kids than Social Media
The post is an essay by Eli Stark-Elster from his Substack.  Here's a link to the original. His argument is that -- although there's a lot of talk now about the damage that social media are doing to children and major efforts to ban social media use for anyone under 16 -- there's a bigger threat to the life and health of young people:  attending school.
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The Teaching Method That Can't Fail
the dominant framework in education—constructivism—is structured so that it can never be shown to be wrong. And a framework that can’t fail can’t improve.
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The Teaching Method That Can't Fail
(and Why That's the Problem)
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Let’s Measure What No One Teaches

This post is a piece I published in Teachers College Record in 2014.  Here’s a link to the original.   It’s an analysis of two major players in the world movement for educational accountability:  OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), and the…
Let’s Measure What No One Teaches
This post is a piece I published in Teachers College Record in 2014.  Here’s a link to the original.   It’s an analysis of two major players in the world movement for educational accountability:  OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), and the US No Child Left Behind law.  The core argument is this: Both PISA and NCLB, I argue, are cases of how we are shrinking the aims of education.
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