North American elementary and secondary schools are based on premises “that have been wrong from the beginning and haven’t become any less wrong for a century’s reiteration.” So argues Kieran Egan, a ...

This paper examines some discursive practices of 'progressivist' education, in order to investigate the forms of power and control which constitute pedagogic knowledges and institutional subjects in ...

“A royal mess.” This is how California middle-school math teacher Barry Garelick describes math education today, especially under the Common Core national standards. In his book, Math Education in the ...

Why is it that one government report after another “unexpectedly” bears more bad news about jobs? Last week, according to Bloomberg, “The number of unemployment claims unexpectedly shot up.” Before ...

Bellah et al. (1985) argue that middle-class Americans have wholeheartedly adopted a moral language of individualism. However, Hunter's (1991) description of the "culture war" suggests that moral ...