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David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: What Schools Can’t Do

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By YearBy Year, David F. Labaree
| National Education Policy Center (NEPC)
This post is the text of a lecture I gave in 2009 at the University of Berne. It was originally published in the Swiss journal Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Historiographie and then found its way into my 2010 book, Someone Has to Fail. Here is the link to the first published version. It’s about a longstanding problem in American educational policy:  We ask schools to pursue goals that are beyond their capabilities. Schools are simply not very good at a lot of things we ask them to do.
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David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Resisting Educational Standards

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By YearBy Year, David F. Labaree
| National Education Policy Center (NEPC)
This post is a piece I published in Kappan in 2000. Here’s a link to the PDF. It’s an analysis of why Americans have long resisted setting educational standards. Of course my timing wasn’t great. Just one year later, the federal government passed the landmark No Child Left Behind law, which established just such a system of standards mandates. Oops. This small faux pas aside, however, I think the essay stands up pretty well.
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David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Problems that Accountability Metrics Pose for Schooling

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By YearBy Year, David F. Labaree
| National Education Policy Center (NEPC)
This is a piece I wrote as the foreword to a book by J. M. Beach — Can We Measure What Matters Most? Why Educational Accountability Metrics Lower Student Learning and Demoralize Teachers — which was published in 2021. For me, this was a chance to provide a brief summary of my thoughts about the problems that accountability metrics pose for schooling. See what you think.
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