Hebrew Union College-University of Cincinnati (HUC-UC): “Preparing Teachers for the Twenty-First Century Schools”

jruss — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:21:18 -0500

In this speech, toward the end of Al Shanker's life, he retreats somewhat from his earlier rousing calls to innovation and reform. He believes educational experimentation should continue, but since a new model has not been determined, he argues that we should revisit the old model and examine how we can improve it. He suggests looking at educational systems in other countries which operate basically in the same way in terms of having classrooms with teachers largely lecturing students. read more »

Smithsonian Conference: "Guidelines for Ensuring Quality Multicultural Education at the K-12 Level"

jruss — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:05:05 -0500

This short speech addresses the treatment of diverse peoples in school textbooks. Al Shanker urges that the stories of under-represented groups be told, but he warns against inclusion at the expense of historical accuracy. He describes the risk of exchanging one set of myths (i.e. American history consists of great white men performing virtuous deeds) for another set of myths (i.e. American history consist of white men oppressing and exploiting white women and people of other ethnicities). read more »

Textbooks

Hebrew Union College-University of Cincinnati (HUC-UC): “Preparing Teachers for the Twenty-First Century Schools”

Smithsonian Conference: "Guidelines for Ensuring Quality Multicultural Education at the K-12 Level"