September 11, 2012
Brian Leiter on the Teachers’ Strike
Read it here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2012/09/chicago-teachers-strike.html
Year: 2012
September 11, 2012
Case Study: Socratic Practice
I began my experience as an educator training teachers in Socratic Seminars in Chicago Public Schools for Mortimer Adler’s Paideia Project in the late 1980s. Paideia was a public school…
September 10, 2012
Have We Reached “The End of History” with Respect to What Education Can Achieve?
Whereas once people believed that education would change the world, now people across the political spectrum tend to be skeptical. Academic performance remains stagnant despite a threefold increase in per…
September 10, 2012
Guest Blogging – Michael Strong on Education
I’m pleased to announce that Michael Strong will be joining us as a guest blogger this week, writing about educational reform from a bleeding heart libertarian perspective. Michael Strong spent fifteen…
September 10, 2012
The K-K-Kase for Barack Obama
If you are a KKK member, you probably don’t support Barack Obama. After all, he’s black, and you hate black people. However, in this post, I hope to convince you…
September 07, 2012
The New Theory of Justice
Modern political philosophers (such as Rawls, Dworkin, and others) have tried to reconcile the traditional liberal concern for liberty with the demands of distributive justice, the latter understood as a…