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December 2014

December 15, 2014

Philosophers of Education in Solidarity with Ayotzinapa

Today the Committee on Race and Ethnicity of the Philosophy of Education Society released the...

June 2014

June 28, 2014

Agonism, Antagonism, and Attitudes About Certainty

I think PEG really hit one nail on the head in his last post of...

June 26, 2014

Against Best Practices and Unintentional Philistinism

PEG has penned another fine rejoinder to my last, rather tedious, reply. I appreciate his...

June 22, 2014

Two Catholic Pragmatists Walk Into Bar: Illich vs. Montessori

My latest and longest reply to my esteemed Patheos colleague, Pascal Emanuel Gobry. My doctoral...

June 18, 2014

Against Methods: The Arts of the Ordinary

This is another reply to Pascal Emanuel Gobry, in particular to his recent reply to me...

June 17, 2014

What Can Go Wrong With Classical, Great Books, and Montessori?

I've written this post in reply to my esteemed Patheos colleague, Pascal Emmanuel Gobry, inspired...

February 2014

February 13, 2014

Deschooling RED: Beyond the Fear of Failure

In 1840, Horace Mann, the first Secretary of Education in the State of New Hampshire...

February 11, 2014

Deschooling Religious Education, in Six Claims

1. Compulsory schooling came to the United States in the 18th century, during the Whig...

February 08, 2014

Deschooling Religious Ed

The ideological assumption that 'schooling' and 'education' are synonyms, that they both describe the same...

December 2013

December 21, 2013

On Rigor

(The late David Foster Wallace's 2005 "This Is Water" Kenyon College commencement speech drones in...

December 09, 2013

Indiana Teacher of the Year Reviews the Primer UPDATED

Steve Perkins is the 2014 teacher of the year for the state of Indiana. This...

November 2013

November 21, 2013

Why I’m Not Too Worked Up About Common Core

The history of compulsory schooling in the United States resembles the political history of Latin...

November 11, 2013

Lessons from a Veteran, Teacher

National holidays tend to bring out the most annoying personality traits of the mirror-imaged two...

September 2013

September 16, 2013

6 (-2) Reasons to NOT Send Your Son to College

<Editor's note: the original post had six reasons but then two of them seemed to...

August 2013

August 16, 2013

Compulsory Schooling and Preventative War — Or, Why Children Have to Go to School

In the secular liturgical cycle of the American year, two seasonal certainties stand out: going...

May 2013

May 20, 2013

Primer Update and Sneak Peek

My latest book --- A Primer for Philosophy & Education --- was released two weeks...

May 14, 2013

Sex Miseducation: Abstinence Doesn’t Make Sense UPDATED

Calah Alexander has written a powerful essay about the psychological and spiritual violence that is often...

April 2013

April 23, 2013

Constructivism and Its Discontents: An Interview

About a month ago, I was interviewed by one of my doctoral students, Emmanuel Mensah,...

March 2013

March 05, 2013

The Teacher-Centered Classroom

Last week I gave two talks at Wabash College. The second talk was unfortunately not recorded....

March 01, 2013

Benedict XVI’s Support for Catholic Schools

Father Ronald Nuzzi, a leading speaker and author on U.S. Catholic schools and director of...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Space, and not being smart in an e-mail.

Sorry, readers. The end of the month is usually the time when I'm trying to...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

Two Notre Dame Rebuttals

My post yesterday defending Notre Dame produced a mostly interesting comment box --- including some...

November 26, 2012

Notre Dame and Its Rather Silly Catholic Malcontents

Notre Dame is the premiere Catholic institution of higher education and research in the United...