Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Mayoral Control of Urban Public Schools? Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Mayoral Control of Urban Public Schools? On the ever-changing agenda of reformers seeking to improve outcomes of U.S. schooling, how schools have been governed ranked in the middle and seldom rose to the top. Locally elected school boards, established in the …

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Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Students Taking Timed Tests (Adam Grant) (Guest Post by Adam Grant) Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Students Taking Timed Tests (Adam Grant) (Guest Post by Adam Grant) Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He authored “Hidden Potential” and “Think Again.” He also hosts the TED podcast “Re: Thinking.” A few years ago, I …

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Unstoppable Search for “Successful” Teaching In U.S. Schools Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Unstoppable Search for “Successful” Teaching In U.S. Schools In my office I have a very old textbook used for beginning teachers called Hall’s Lectures on School-Keeping. It was published in 1829. “While the class is reading,” Samuel Read Hall tells novices, “the entire atten…

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Technology Might Be Making Schooling Worse (Antero Garcia) (Guest Post by Antero Garcia) Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Technology Might Be Making Schooling Worse (Antero Garcia) (Guest Post by Antero Garcia) Antero Garcia is associate professor of education in Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. This article appeared in Stanford Report, June 26, 2023 As a professor of education an…

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Teachers and Students Think about and Use A.I. (Natasha Singer) (Guest post by Natasha Singer) Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Teachers and Students Think about and Use A.I. (Natasha Singer) (Guest post by Natasha Singer) Natasha Singer writes about technology, business and society for the New York Times. She reports on tech companies and their influence on public schools, higher education and job op…

Radical Eyes for Equity: The Paradox of Fostering Community Norms in the Classroom in an Era of Indoctrination Histrionics Radical Eyes for Equity: The Paradox of Fostering Community Norms in the Classroom in an Era of Indoctrination Histrionics After 18 years teaching high school English, I transitioned to higher education in 2002. For well over a decade, I have been teaching first-year writing to incoming college students, who in many ways struggle w…

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Policymakers Err Time and Again about Classroom Teaching Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Policymakers Err Time and Again about Classroom Teaching As a result of living in a different world than teachers do, policymakers make a serious error. Too often, they confuse teacher quality with teaching quality, that is, the personal traits of teachers—dedicated, caring, greg…

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Parents Saying No to Smartphones (Olivia Reingold) (Guest Post by Olivia Reingold) Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Parents Saying No to Smartphones (Olivia Reingold) (Guest Post by Olivia Reingold) “Olivia Reingold co-created and executive produced Matthew Yglesias’s podcast, “Bad Takes.” She got her start in public radio, regularly appearing on NPR for her reporting on indigenous communities…

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Can Schools Reduce Obesity in Children and Youth? Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Can Schools Reduce Obesity in Children and Youth? Public schools have been drafted again and again to fight national problems (e.,g., racial segregation, teenage pregnancy, cigarette smoking, drinking alcohol, and drug use). Americans believe that schools must be part of any solu…

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Will ChatGPT Alter How Teachers Teach? Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Will ChatGPT Alter How Teachers Teach? “hatbots could be used as powerful classroom aids that make lessons more interactive, teach students media literacy, generate personalized lesson plans, save teachers time on admin, and more.” The hullabaloo in and out of schools over thi…

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Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teachers as Both the Problem and Solution to Improved Schooling: The Perpetual Paradox Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teachers as Both the Problem and Solution to Improved Schooling: The Perpetual Paradox Has anyone noticed that much of the blame pundits shower on teachers and unions for blocking school reform and tolerating low-performing students is usually followed by perky pay-for-performanc…