The Best Way to Make Enemies
The Best Way to Make Enemies… Do the impossible © 2008 Gary S. Stager Since 1990, I have worked in schools where every child has …
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Everything I Know About NCLB (now RTTT) I Learned from Primetime Live
In 1963, Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist began a series of studies “intended to measure the willingness of a participant to obey an authority who …
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If You Really Want to Honor Dr. King…
Author’s note – Monday, January 21, 2008. I originally published this in The Pulse: Education’s Place for Debate in January 2007, but alas it is …
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Integrated Learning Systems, The New Slavery (1992)
Read this incendiary article I wrote for circulation among my friends back in 1992. I didn’t write as well then and lacked a filter for …
Halt the Testing Madness (2003)
Before accepting over-testing as inevitable, try debating the issue with parents and students Our schools are in the midst of a mass panic not seen …
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Enrichment Programs – The winners win more at the expense of their classmates
One could hardly disagree that recent generations have experienced increasingly mechanized school practices. Issues impacting school administrators such as data-driven decision-making and management theories, borrowed …
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Read by 10 Million Times More People than My Blog
I am quoted in this weekend’s edition of Parade Magazine. After a long conversation with a reporter, fact-checking and a several month delay, I have …
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Hate to Say It, but “I Told You So!” (part 2)
On December 17, 2008 – one month before Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States, I expressed my fear about …
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Hate to Say, “I Told You So!” (part 1)
On September 3, 2008 I published this article, First We Kill the Teacher Unions, in the Huffington Post. The article reported on some evidence that …
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Bulls#@t and the Art of Crap-Detection
Back in the late 1960s, Neil Postman wrote extensively about how educational quality and a healthy democracy were dependent on each citizen having a highly …