Outcome Based Education
Grand Design or Blueprint for Failure?
During inservices in October and November, all MPS teachers were introduced to Outcome Based Education (OBE), a program we were assured was “one of the most significant curriculum developments in […]
North Division District Plan
Our Children Deserve Better
Since August a great deal of attention has been focused on the educational future of the 8,000 inner-city students of Milwaukee. The attention focused not on the desegregation settlement between […]
Whole Language: A Refreshing Approach to Language Instruction
The cry “Johnny Can’t Read” was first heard in the mid-fifties when Rudolf Flesch authored a book addressing that issue. Three decades later “illiteracy” is a key concern of our […]
The Struggle for Equal Education
An Historical Note
Ever since the momentous Brown decision of 1954 outlawed state enforced school segregation, there has been a tendency to look suspiciously upon any educational plan that is indifferent to the […]
School Making Differences
Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality
Equal educational opportunity has generally been equated with desegregation in the decades since Brown v. Board of Education abolished state mandated separate schooling. When inequality of results has persisted in […]
Learning to Learn Together
In our highly individualistic society it seems children (like adults) know better how to compete over self-centered concerns than to work together toward common Goals. Often within a classroom students […]
Education in South Africa: Life in a “Colored” School
While the black — white conflict in South Africa is often headline news, we hear little about South Africa’s 3.2 million people of Asian and mixed race background. In the […]
Education in South Africa: Challenging “Gutter Education”
During the Soweto Uprising of 1976 hundreds of school children were killed by the South African police. Since that time, no struggle in South Africa has taken on greater prominence […]
Why Top-Down Structures and Excellent Teaching Don’t Mix
Carnegie Offers a Hopeful Alternative
“A Nation Prepared” the report of the Carnegie Corporation on teaching as a profession, speaks very strongly to many of the issues school people are concerned about today. It is […]
