The Teacher Accountability Debate

The teacher accountability narrative is part of a larger effort to restructure the teaching profession by turning it into a market-based activity.This paper seeks to deconstruct the assumptions embedded in the narrative

2014 John Dewey Lecture: Does Evidence Matter?

2014 John Dewey Lecture at AERA

Viewpoint: Toward a head-on collision

The two dominant trends in education today are moving toward a head-on collision

Welfare and education in British colonial Africa, 1918–1945

The relevance of historical research for an explanation of the roots of contemporary educational policy and its relationship to notions of equity, democracy and development has been sadly neglected in recent years. This means that policy makers have forfeited the advantages of reflecting on the traditions and experience of past endeavors and examining them critically for potential understandings of present and future policy making. The aim of this paper was to direct the attention of researchers to the complexities and multifaceted nature of educational policy development in inter-war era (1918–1945), with specific reference to British colonial Africa and South Africa. It will also hopefully provide a set of elementary tools for all of those interested in educational policy-making strategies that seek to promote meaningful social, economic and political change in an age of uncertainty

School reform: past, present, and future

Presented as the Frank J. Battisti Memorial Lecture from the 2000-01 Case Western Reserve University School of Law lecture series on October 5, 2000. Introductions by Gerald Korngold, Dean of the School of Law, and Dan McMullen, former clerk to Judge Battist