The life story of “LIFO”
According to Dana Goldstein, the acronym LIFO did not come up in education discussions until May 19, 2010. In 2009, officials referred to “last in, first out” rules, but they did not use the acronym....
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Despite fears of tracking, high-quality career tech programs are overcoming the voc-ed stigma, writes Dana Goldstein in The Nation. At Aviation High, a five-year career and/or college prep school in...
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Teacher Wars aren’t new
Dana Goldstein‘s new book, The Teacher Wars is “meticulously fair and disarmingly balanced,” writes Alexander Nazaryan in the New York Times. The book starts in the 1820’s with the advent of universal...
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Grammar, the Archenemy of Joy?
Why do people assume that sustained instruction in grammar (including sentence parsing) will rob students of joy and do irreparable damage to the soul? The other day, Dana Goldstein’s article “Why Kids...
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