Thought for the Week – Sept. 1, 2014

Over a century ago, industry learned the value of centralizing, specializing, and standardizing.  Soon, education began to centralize, specialize, and standardize, as well.  I’ve begun to call this getting hit between the IZE, and while some of this is good, to be sure, I’m not sure the results have been uniformly positive.

For more thoughts on this topic, see Hit Between the IZE.

Thought of the Week: Doctors & Educators

It’s hard to question ‘accountability’, of course, and no one wants a ‘bad teacher’ (assuming we can define that), but many of the discussions about ‘making teachers accountable’ begin to sound like penalizing doctors for their patients who die.

For more thoughts on this, see my blog post  Doctors & Educators