notes on the MCCSC public hearing on proposed budget cuts
Last night, the Monroe County Community School Corporation (MCCSC) school board held a public hearing on the sweeping budget cuts the board plans to make across the district. I was one of hundreds in...
View ArticleI made a t-shirt.
In case you’re wondering why, go here and here and here. (Also here and here.) I’m thinking about selling the shirt and donating the proceeds to Aurora Alternative High School, a public school of...
View ArticleLetter from a Bloomington high school student to the students of Aurora...
Today, the Bloomington Herald-Times published a guest column written by Victoria Ison, a student at Bloomington High School North. The column is framed as a letter to students at Aurora Alternative...
View Articleas goes Detroit…
file under: if you’re not mad, you’re not paying attention. I knew the recession had hit Michigan, my home state, harder than it’s hit any other place in the country; I knew this because I’ve been...
View Articlenotes on being the chainsaw you wish to see in the world: Closing remarks for...
I just got back from my first trip to the annual meeting of AERA, the American Educational Research Association. AERA is apparently the biggest educational research conference in America. I had a...
View Articleprinciples for ethical educational research
I’ve been thinking lately about the burden of speaking for others. Because I’m an educational researcher, and speaking for others is the heart of what we do. We walk into a classroom, watch some things...
View Articlea call for businesses to boycott the Bloomington Herald-Times
Tonight will mark the last commencement ceremony for Aurora Alternative High School, whose doors will shut at the end of this school year after 15 years of serving the Bloomington, IN, community. The...
View Articlehow Jim Gee and I soothe our guilty consciences
In the video below of a presentation to the Education Writers Association 2010 Annual Conference, Jim Gee says this about how to introduce innovative ideas into education: There’s a choice of...
View Articletwinning injustice, one social structure at a time
My sister, who just finished absolutely destroying her first year of law school, recently announced an interest in pursuing criminal prosecution. Once I overcame my instant misreading of her...
View ArticleMCCSC referendum passes
This is a good thing, sort of. No, no, it’s a really good thing, no qualifications necessary. It’s just that… Well, this school board has shown a confusing enthusiasm for taking money away from...
View Articledevising a model for technology in education: my version of writer’s block
I believe the following principles to hold true: Human goals are mediated by, and thenceforth only achieved through, the widespread adoption and use of new technologies.* Human purposes for adopting...
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