I'm writing for RealClearEducation.com

3/11/2014

Dear blog readers
I will now be blogging at RealClearEducation.com.

RealClearEducation is an offshoot of RealClearPolitics, which has earned a good reputation as a clearinghouse for thoughtful commentary without partisan invective.

We need such a clearinghouse in education.

The fact that Andy Rotherham is heading RealClearEducation as Executive Editor gives me confidence that there is a steady hand at the wheel. I have great respect for Andy as someone who is able to make his political views plain, but actually listen to differing opinions, and to change his views when it makes sense.

I hope that you'll continue to be interested in what I write about science and how it applies to education, and that you'll find RealClearEducation a valuable site.

Here's my first post at RealClearEducation: Do We Underestimate our Youngest Learners?

~Dan Willingham

william eccleston

3/16/2014 03:32:03 am

I am sure your move to Realclear Education was carefully deliberated. Still, as a consumer of your "product" I'm wondering if it was the right one. I suspect not.

I went to the site and couldn't find your column. The site just screams "data overload" and if, indeed, your column is listed, it is buried in all the other competing material.

Simply put, as a typical teacher whose career has been caught up in the depressing maelstrom of the perpetual "reform" cycle, the last thing I am likely to do is add Realclear Education to my daily reading routine.

Indeed, while once I was quite a reader of Eduinfo---believing, like a true Bolshevik, that revolution was possible---I have come to loathe the genre. Some time ago it all became a great blur to me, a source of perplexity and even anxiety rather than help, and one fine morning I ruthlessly deleted nearly all of it, your column being an exception. I have come to agree with Thoreau, our earliest and still, perhaps, most trenchant critic of the modern media who wrote---cutting to the heart of the matter--- "If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter---we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?"

To pick the clear light your reasoning out of that turgid mass is, I fear, more than I can do. I might have read your last column.

Dan Willingham

3/16/2014 07:36:57 am

I'll be reprinting columns from RealClear here :)

william

3/19/2014 10:47:57 pm

That's great!

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