Category Archives: education

The more things change…

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jon Becker | Permalink 0

  Two recent articles caught my attention. It’s hard to read them together and not shake your head. The First Race to the Top by William Reese, professor of educational policy studies and history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison The testing groundwork was laid in 1837, when a lawyer and legislator in Massachusetts named Horace Mann became [...] Read more »

assessment, Cuban, Ed. Policy, Ed. Tech., education, history, Reese, technology

Reflecting on Ruby

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Mr. John Hendron | Permalink 0

“Internationally recognized” speaker Ruby Payne recently visited us in Richmond as part of the central Virginia’s Region 1 Superintendent’s Series. Payne writes and speaks about poverty issues in education. Before I attended the event, I read an article by one … Continue reading →
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education, gorski, Learning Reflections, payne, poverty, Professional Reflections

Tightening the narrative around school change

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Jon Becker | Permalink 0


The stories our leaders tell us matter, probably almost as much as the stories our parents tell us as children, because they orient us to what is, what could be, and what should be; to the worldviews they hold and to the values they hold sacred. In an opinion piece in the New York Times, [...] Read more »

argument, critique, Ed. Leadership, Ed. Policy, Ed. Tech., education, Learning, logic, McLeod, narrative, social media, technology

To everything there is a season…except learning

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Jon Becker | Permalink 0


What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon it destroys our democracy. – John Dewey (1900, p. 3) I am by no means the best or wisest parent. However, lately, [...] Read more »

blog4reform, community, Ed. Policy, Ed. Research, education, equity, Equity / Discrimination, Learning, parenting, research, seasons, summer learning