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Let’s get curious about the charter school controversy

You’d like to think that Education, in the business of encouraging being thoughtful and curious about things, would be curious about itself. But it would be naïve to expect that. Education isn’t any better at self -examination than any other embedded institution. There was a news story early in August about a ballot question for […]

September 19, 2015 – 8:32 am | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

School bullying in a bullying world [op ed CCT 1 May 2012]

Presumably the heralded new movie “Bully” will soon be in local theaters, punctuating a period of heightened interest in this subject. Stopping the evil of bullying in schools has been one of the hot topics in the last couple of years. In Massachusetts a lot of the discussion was triggered by the suicide of South […]

May 1, 2012 – 6:58 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)