Humboldt State in the News
2008-01-17 · Original WordPress address
Woot!
Too bad it was in the context of bitching about Schools of Education where most of our k-12 teachers are trained:
Instead of competition and diversity in the education schools, we confront what Hirsch calls the “thoughtworld” of teacher training, which operates like a Soviet-style regime suppressing alternative perspectives. Professors who dare to break with the ideological monopoly—who look to reading science or, say, embrace a core knowledge approach—won’t get tenure, or get hired in the first place. The teachers they train thus wind up indoctrinated with the same pedagogical dogma whether they attend New York University’s school of education or Humboldt State’s. Those who put their faith in the power of markets to improve schools must at least show how their theory can account for the stubborn persistence of the thoughtworld.
(h/t Kling)
PS - I grew up in Humboldt County hating the hippies up in Humboldt State who, as it turns out, were mostly there training to be teachers. Also, later in life I went to Humboldt to add a Math degree to my growing list of certifications. Oh, I don't hate the hippies anymore.