Professor Voices » Boston University School of Education http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices Opinions and views by Boston University experts Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:10:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Film examines pressure cooker culture in American schools http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/02/18/new-film-examines-pressure-cooker-culture-in-american-schools/ http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/02/18/new-film-examines-pressure-cooker-culture-in-american-schools/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:53:04 +0000 Kira Jastive http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/?p=469 Many American schools have become academic and extra curricular pressure cookers that often push both students and teachers to their limits. Hardin Coleman, Dean of the Boston University School of Education (SED), discusses the new documentary, “Race to Nowhere: The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture,” and how too hard of a focus on school statistics and strong student performance can actually create less successful educational outcomes.


]]> http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/02/18/new-film-examines-pressure-cooker-culture-in-american-schools/feed/ 0 Changing Huck Finn? BU Education Dean Weighs-in http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/01/19/32/ http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/01/19/32/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:27:28 +0000 Kira Jastive http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/?p=32 Hardin Coleman, Dean of the Boston University School of Education (SED), offers his take on the new edition of Huckleberry Finn being published in February that removes the 219 references to the n-word. 

Will this change make the book more accessible to teachers and students in the classroom or is altering Twain’s work censorship?  Dr. Coleman thinks changing the book is “disturbing from the level of intellectual honesty” and that “sugar coating” the book does not allow for growth and change when it comes to issues of race and discrimination.


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