This post is a set of links to all of my published papers, book chapters, and magazine articles and also to six course syllabi. Here's a link to a PDF of the entire list, which is more usable. Feel free to share with anyone you like. David F. Labaree Links to Publications and Course Materials … Continue reading Links to PDFs of All My Papers, Chapters, and Articles
This post is a lovely piece about writing by Phyllis Rose. Here's a link to the original, which appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2001. It's a wonderful essay about how to write effectively, using as a case in point her analysis of Louis Menand's book, The Metaphysical Club, winner of the 2002 … Continue reading Phyllis Rose — In Writing About Ideas, Some Silences Are Golden
This post is an analysis of alternative theories for explaining the historical development of American schooling. It was published in 2014 in the Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy. Here's a link to a pdf of the original. I wrote it as a way to frame the major theories of schooling for students in my … Continue reading Theories of the Historical Development of American Schooling
This post is a paper I published in Journal of Teacher Education in 2010. Here's a link to a PDF of the original. Here's a summary of the argument: Teach For America is a marvel at marketing, offering elite college students a win-win option: By becoming corps members, they can do good and do … Continue reading Teach For America and Teacher Ed: Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
This post is about, of all things, the Byzantine Empire. Unlike its western counterpart, what is usually called the Roman Empire, it has received little respect over the years. Even the name is a calumny (drawn from the name of the original Greek city of Byzantium that later became the empire's capital, Constantinople), which was … Continue reading The Triumph and Tragedy of the Byzantine Empire — How It Preserved the West and Devastated the East
This post is a column by my favorite education writer, Jay Mathews from the Washington Post. Here's a link to the original. I've posted two other pieces by him recently (here and here). In it he addresses an issue that creates so much craziness -- the way upper-middle class American families obsess about getting their … Continue reading Jay Mathews — Don’t Fret that Harvard Turned You Down. Top Public Universities Have a Lot More High-Scoring Students than the Most Selective Privates
This post is a paper I presented as part of a panel on the politics of teacher education at the annual meeting of the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) in 2005. It was published that same year in the Journal of Teacher Education. Here's a link to the original. The paper draws … Continue reading Life on the Margins — Why Teacher Ed Has So Little Impact on Ed Policy
This post is the transcript of an interview I did with Jon-Ryan Maloney for his blog Cerebral Conversations. Here's a link to the original. It's a discussion about the emergent nature of the American system of higher education, which draws from my book, A Perfect Mess. Issues we cover include: How to justify public investment … Continue reading The Emergent University — An Interview
This post is an op-ed by Ben Bratt that was originally published in the Wall Street Journal in March, 2017. It draws on his book, Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing. Here's a pdf of the original. In this essay, he reports on some of … Continue reading Ben Bratt — Men Shout and Women Scream, at Least in Fiction
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 