Scholar/ Practitioner s thoughts on education
Charter schools in the U.S. are over three decades old. Advocates for wider parental choice of schools lobbied state legislatures and local school boards to authorize a different way to organize a tax-supported public school with its own school board Continue reading
I had to move out of my office on Stanford s campus. I had retired from the Graduate School of Education in 2001 and since GSE had allotted offices in one of the two education buildings on campus for retired professors Continue reading
Emily Cherkin, M.Ed., is a nationally recognized consultant who takes a tech-intentional approach to addressing screentime challenges. A former middle school teacher, she has been featured for her work in the New York Times, the Washington Post, on the Today Continue reading
I offer my experience in teaching high schoolers and graduate students on the same day as an honest, perhaps naive, way of reflecting on how (and why) I taught both for an entire semester. While teaching both kinds of students Continue reading
Hard to believe that I began this blog in 2009. I have enjoyed writing about school reform and classroom practice because both have anticipated and unanticipated consequences for children, teachers, parents, citizens, and society. I look forward to writing posts during Continue reading
Just see wherever we peer into the first tiny springs of the national life, how this true panacea for all of the ills of the body politic bubbles forth—education, education, education. Andrew Carnegie, 1886[i] School houses do not teach Continue reading
Jonathan Zimmerman is a historian of education at the University of Pennsylvania. This article appeared in the Dallas News March 28, 2026. I m glad the Colts Neck, New Jersey, school board rejected a proposal last week to rename Conover Road Continue reading
Once upon a time, there was much unemployment, poverty, and homelessness across the land. Leaders tried one thing after another to end these grim conditions. Nothing worked. In the midst of these bad times, however, a small group of educators, Continue reading
That child-rearing theories have swung back and forth between parents as disciplinarians and bonding with their children, between child-centered and parent-centered is obvious to today s middle-age Moms and Dads who think but a moment about their parents and grand-parents. Psychologists Continue reading
This article appeared in Inside Higher Ed, July 8, 2026. For the first time since he started teaching Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory nearly two decades ago, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his students a take-home midterm Continue reading