Professor Harry Brighouse
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Department of Education Policy Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Commentaries
Here are some recent commentaries of mine, mainly written for the Times Educational Supplement. Bear in mind that I had no control over the titles given to the pieces!
Mainly US-Focused Pieces:
Boys and girls: Playing the Blame Game in the Battle of the Sexes
The length of lunch breaks: Barbarians eat into our lunch break
Grade Inflation: Silence the Grade Whingers
School choice: Charters for Choice
Evolution and Intelligent Design: Bush Goes Bananas in the Monkey Wars (I do not pick the headlines!!)
Teaching history patriotically: Sentimental myths harm our history
Summer vacations are too long: Mind the Holiday Gap
Social mobility and educational equality: Birth of Educational Equality in the US
The pledge of allegiance: America: One Nation Now Divided By God
About Channel One and commercialism in schools: Don't Let Ads Poison Children's Minds
My optimistic take on No Child Left Behind: Bush's Left Turn for Education
Religious Schools: Why I Have Faith In Religious Schools
Mainly UK-Focused pieces:
Blame it on the puritans: Review of Intelligence, Destiny and Education by John White
On Muslim Schools: Review of In Good Faith by Marie Parker-Jenkins et al.
A debate about comprehensive schools with my dad: Can Comprehensives Really Work? (my dad's article is here)
On targetting resources to disadvantaged pupils: Tricks for Social Mobility
Against privatising management of schools: School Profits Are Doomed
On teaching citizenship: Rigours of Right and Wrong
How Lotteries Could Make School Admissions Fairer (The Independent)
Educational Equality and Selection in the UK (The Independent, premium content)
Here, finally, are some of my favourite recent Crooked Timber posts and discussions from the archive:
Gay Marriage and Straight Divorce
David Brooks on Annette Lareau's Unequal Childhoods
A Defence of Equality (with Chris Bertram) (a reponse to David Schmidtz piece for the Cato Institute).