Excerpted below is a report from the Texas Observer’s Abby Rapoport, “Virtual Schools, Virtually Unregulated?,” about how a “virtual school” has avoided accountability in order to avoid being a, well, school. At this point, the Texas Virtual Academy shouldn’t exist. Under the state’s accountability rules, the school should have been shut down or overhauled after [...]
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Radiating from Our Senses, Pedagogically Yours
The poet May Swenson, in her preface to a selection of Tomas Transtromer poems she had translated into English, offers what might be the perfect vision for public education: Signals and responses radiating from our senses (visual, tactile, acoustic, kinetic) give rise to various arts, for instance, painting, sculpture, music, and dance. Poetry, we like [...]
