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Marion Brady Columnist EducationNews.org


Beyond "No Child Left Behind" and other simplistic strategies
These are troubled times in American education.  There have always been enough "silver bullets" aimed at its ills to maintain a small war, but the vague fears spawned first by Russia, and now by the ascendancy of China and India, have increased the bullets' size and number.

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When captains of business and industry ‘hijacked’ education--and teachers let them

By Marion Brady. "We have met the enemy, and he is us," said Pogo. We educators should make the wise little opossum from Walt Kelly’s comic strip our mascot.

Education, Democracy, and Systems Theory

Marion Brady
Columnist EducationNews.org
A few months ago I was invited to make a presentation to the Kettering Foundation staff in Dayton, Ohio. The Foundation asks and tries to answer the question, "What does it take to make democracy work as it should?" Here, as concisely as I'm able to state it, is an answer: What does it take to make democracy work as it should? A population that understands itself and its situation in the deepest possible sense.

Education's Future?

Marion Brady
Columnist EdNews.org
How to solve all of Education's problems - A PowerPoint Presentation

Process As Content

Marion Brady
Columnist EdNews.org
At the most fundamental level, American education is suffering from an advanced state of what social scientists call “institutionalization.”

Response to their "Tough Choices Or Tough Times."

Marion Brady Columnist EdNews.org
Is it just a strategy designed to help overcome resistance to educational change? Whatever the reason, I react very negatively to Tough Choices Or Tough Times’ casting the young primarily in the role of "workforce." That’s surely a narrow conception of humanness upon which to try to build a vibrant, dynamic, soul-satisfying society.

Merit pay! I loved the idea!

Marion Brady
Columnist EducationNews.org
From the farmhouse where I once lived, it was pretty much a straight shot up Ohio Route 14 to Lincoln Electric on the east side of Cleveland. Fifty years ago it was about an hour's drive.

Cheap! Maybe that's the key that'll open the door to educational change!

Marion Brady

The appeal of lower taxes almost always trumps the appeal of higher-quality education, so the trick is to figure out how to educate better with less money.....a whole lot less money....so much less money that state legislators won't be able to resist removing enough bureaucratic barriers to allow experimentation.

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