Cross-posted at Education Week. The champions are in the ring. The crowd goes wild. Bernie Sanders, the likely 2020 Democratic candidate, says the problem with the economy is the fat cats who have rigged it for their benefit. He wants to unleash a progressive tax schedule on...
Cross-posted at Education Week. Like tectonic plates breaking up under enormous pressure to form new continents, the two big American political parties are morphing right in front of us. I have argued in an earlier blog that this process began when Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark...
Cross-posted at Education Week. In last week's blog, I shared my understanding of the challenges facing a large and growing number of Americans who have been left behind by globalization and advancing automation. Many people wrote to me asking what part education might be able to...
Cross-posted at Education Week. I ran into an acquaintance on the ferry the other day. She told me that after she began to wake from the shock of the election's outcome she decided that she wanted to get out of the cocoon of her circle of...
Cross-posted at Education Week. In last week's blog, I called attention to proposals from some Silicon Valley entrepreneurs for government to provide income support to most of the population, in view of the possibility that intelligent machines may end up doing most of the work that...
Cross-posted at Education Week. I remember when I was in high school reading sci-fi novels about disembodied humans—only the brains left, floating in some unidentified liquid in a transparent ball—connected to their environment by a gaggle of wires to a machine that enabled them to communicate...
I tried to make three points in last week's blog about the renewed interest in career and technical education. The first is that if career and technical education is to be useful, it has to be built on a sound command of the basic...
Cross-posted on Education Week Most of the arguments I have heard against the Common Core State Standards strike me as hardly worth responding to, but I came across a piece on the subject the other day by Yong Zhao that is rather thoughtful. Zhao is presidential...