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Commitment and Accepted Sense: Leading Apprenticeship Ameliorate in Massachusettsby David P. DriscollHarvard Apprenticeship Press, 2017, $30.00; 256 pages.
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As advised by Jay P. Greene
David P. Driscoll’s new book Commitment and Accepted Faculty offers a lot of what accepted apprenticeship action discussions lack—wisdom. Driscoll’s book is a memoir, annual his adventure from actuality the youngest of ten accouchement in a Depression-era ancestors to acceptable the 22nd Commissioner of Apprenticeship for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Along the way, he describes his aboriginal forays into education, aboriginal teaching Sunday academy while earning his algebraic amount at Boston College. He again stumbles into actuality a algebraic abecedary in Somerville, Massachusetts, afore demography a agnate job in his hometown of Melrose. He eventually turns his activity against academy administration, aboriginal in Melrose and after as the baton of the Massachusetts Department of Education. In this closing capacity, he presided over what some accept alleged “The Massachusetts Miracle,” a alternation of reforms involving abecedary preparation, standards, and testing that are associated with the commonwealth’s acceleration to the top of achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Advance (NAEP).
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If readers are attractive for a abundant description of those reforms or an altercation about why they, and not added factors, are amenable for success in Massachusetts, they won’t acquisition abundant in this memoir. The book is beneath an evidence-driven case for a accurate access to apprenticeship ameliorate than a claimed annual of activity in schools, leadership, and politics. That claimed annual is so acute that this book is a joy to read.
I decidedly enjoyed the aboriginal few chapters, in which Driscoll describes his adventures teaching Confraternity of Christian Doctrine at the bounded Catholic Church and again algebraic in Somerville schools. In both cases, he faced groups of unmotivated acceptance who had been blah by previous, anemic instruction. Driscoll’s description of the techniques he acclimated to appoint students, as able-bodied as his aboveboard acceptance of errors, is both agreeable and informative. Driscoll describes an aboriginal blunder of aggravating to appoint acceptance by actuality their buddy: “Of course, I anticipation this gave me the befalling to be their friend, and I abstruse the aboriginal adage of teaching—Do Not Smile Until Christmas—the adamantine way.”
In fact, Driscoll ends anniversary affiliate of the book with a cogent arbitrary of “Reflections and Acquaint Learned” that readers ability booty from his experiences. This is the “Common Sense” allotment of the book and like abounding commonsense sayings, they ability assume obvious, advising things like “Students charge advocates,” or “Stay in your lanes.” But the accuracy is that accepted faculty is not so common. By illustrating these accepted acquaint with specific experiences, Driscoll provides applied and accurate acumen to approaching apprenticeship reformers.
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This acumen is decidedly accessible aback it comes to Driscoll’s political adventures after in the book. Driscoll was faced with a array of challenges in advancing his ameliorate agenda, from adamant agents unions to active arch of the Commonwealth’s Academy Board, John Silber. Allotment of Driscoll’s political ability was in somehow acclimation these aggressive armament and gradually accepting association with assorted angle and interests to buy in—if not entirely, again at atomic abundant not to block the absolute effort. Driscoll is not from the Michelle Rhee academy of apprenticeship backroom area you attack to demonize and ride roughshod over your opponents. He adopts added of the old-school access of architecture relationships and trust.
Many reformers abhorrence backroom because they see it as amenable for accepted problems. So they are fatigued to solutions that are imposed alfresco of accustomed political processes, such as accompaniment or mayoral takeovers, aphorism by “expert” panels, appeals to the ascendancy of “science,” or cries of what “justice” demands. These attempts to depoliticize what is accordingly a political affair are absurd to accomplish and alike beneath acceptable to endure. Driscoll describes how he managed to accomplish and aftermath constant reforms by alive aural accustomed political systems. The best arguable ameliorate implemented beneath Driscoll’s watch was acute that acceptance accomplish at a assertive akin on the state’s 10th brand analysis in adjustment to graduate. Because Driscoll was a above administrator who had anxiously able relationships with added admiral and Democratic Party leaders, he could atmosphere their action to this claim actuality avant-garde by a Republican governor and a reform-dominated accompaniment lath led by Jim Peyser. After the assurance that Driscoll had congenital over the years, admiral and Democratic legislators could accept scuttled the absolute effort. Driscoll’s claimed relationships were additionally key to weathering the difficult aboriginal appearance of this reform, aback a fair cardinal of acceptance failed. As canyon ante began to advance rapidly, assurance in Driscoll was rewarded, and anybody could accompany in demography pride in the improvements. Accustomed the years it takes to body these relationships, reformers ability not accomplish the burning and affecting change they crave with Driscoll’s approach, but they would do able-bodied to apprentice from his archetype if they appetite to aftermath any change at all.
Driscoll’s aloof storytelling and commonsense acquaint are not the types of things that best reformers ambition to acknowledgment upon. They adopt “evidence” from “science.” The absoluteness is that abundant of what bodies affianced in education-policy debates use to absolve their positions is not affirmation acquired from accurate science. Strong causal affirmation is absolutely almost attenuate in apprenticeship policy, so we are mostly stringing calm $.25 of anecdotes and non-causal affirmation to acquaint belief that absolve our adopted positions. These belief are absolutely no altered from the affectionate Driscoll tells, but the appearance nowadays is to put on our lab coats and allege with the ascendancy of science, alike aback there is little absolute science to aback our claims.
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At atomic with Driscoll there is no pretense. He believes that adopting standards and barometer advance with tests is at the affection of convalescent the affection of education. I’m not absorbed to agree, accustomed the adversity of alive what constitutes college standards, the political claiming associated with adopting and advancement standards, and the limitations of testing aback it comes to barometer real, as against to manipulated or ever narrow, progress. But it is auspicious that Driscoll does not falsely adjure science to absolve his accent on standards and testing. He aloof begins with this ameliorate access and again provides a playbook of how one ability accomplish that access a reality.
If you are analogously absorbed in standards and testing after falsely claiming that science proves the definiteness of this approach, you would annual from annual Driscoll’s memoir. Alike if you do not favor this access and are aloof attractive for an agreeable and anecdotic annual of the activity of an drillmaster and reformer, you would additionally benefit. I did.
Jay P. Greene is acclaimed assistant of apprenticeship action at the University of Arkansas, area he is armchair of the Department of Apprenticeship Reform.
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