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Dangerously Irrelevant (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… [I]n American education, policy making is not guided by what is best for children or the larger public. It is a political process driven by power. And the most powerful groups in that process are special interests, led by the teachers unions, with a...
Dangerously Irrelevant (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… There is every reason to believe that technology will only become more effective with time. The same cannot be said of the traditional “technology” of education - teachers and classrooms - unless that world changes fundamentally. (p. 77) Scores of technology-based instructional programs are...
Dangerously Irrelevant (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… A. “The average technology score [from Education Week’s Technology Counts 2008] drops as union membership grows. . . . technology seems to be advancing more quickly in states where the unions are weakest” (p. 107). [chart is from p. 108] B. “The percentage of...
Dangerously Irrelevant (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… The fact that [technology] offers enormous benefits is not enough to guarantee that it will be embraced by the public schools and its potential fully realized. Technological change will run into the same political roadblocks that all major reforms have run into, and for...
