Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Pick Your Metaphor: Is School Reform More Like a Pendulum or a Hurricane? Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Pick Your Metaphor: Is School Reform More Like a Pendulum or a Hurricane? The metaphor of the pendulum hides much more than it reveals. Consider that a clock pendulum swing returns almost to the same spot it left. Although there is motion, there is little change. Continuity is th…

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Rubik’s Cube and School Reform Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Rubik’s Cube and School Reform When the Rubik’s Cube appeared in the 1980s, I tried twisting and turning the colors to get them all aligned. I failed. Finding out that there are 3 billion possible ways to turn the Cube’s corners, edges, and center to get the solution comforted me…

Ron Wyden on FISA Reform and Crypto Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has been a long-standing member of the U.S. Senate, and was a sponsor or co-sponsor of several key pieces of legislation enabling broad adoption of the internet. More recently, he voted in favor of a House Resolution overturning the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Staff Accounting Bulletin 121, and questioned threats…

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Do No Harm: The Case of U.S. School Reform Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Do No Harm: The Case of U.S. School Reform My personal view is policymakers should be risk-averse when it comes to changing public school systems. To alter the institutional structure of U.S. schools radically without sufficient evidence that the ‘reforms’ would be successful is …