Join the conversation

I've been following Ed in '08's Blogger's Summit out of the corner of my eye. A sentence from Alexander Russo's most recent posting from the Summit caught my attention: "Blogger, teacher, and author Dan Brown has asked the most intense questions so far--one about high stakes testing and the about the dangers of taking an extreme de-Bathification approach to bypassing educators."

While the "de-baathification" reference raises an unwelcome comparison between educators and Iraqi Baathists, the broader point--the danger of attempts to pursue education reform without the educators--deserves attention. I look forward to reading about the answers to Brown's questions.

Update (5/16/08)
Well, I expected to read a flood of blog postings on Dan Brown's question, but, as Assorted Stuff remarks, the Edin08 Blogger Summit spawned precious few blog postings--and next to nothing on "de-Baathification." I guess I'll have have to ask Dan himself.  Bear with me.