Johann Neem
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| Dissecting a Glowing Report on Online Learning | Johann Neem, professor of history, Western Washington University The report “Making Digital Learning Work” (2018) concludes that combining face-to-face with online courses… |
2018-04-18 | |
| A time for school choice? If so, let’s make sure we ask the right questions | Will we have public schools a decade from now? What will they look like? For the first time since the 19th century, or perhaps since debates over… |
2018-03-08 | |
| Skills don’t matter (outside their context) | Skills do not matter. Let me say that again. On their own, skills do not matter. This is worth saying in response to Thursday’s Inside… |
2018-02-26 | |
| The new tax law poses a hidden threat to American democracy | Most attention on the tax legislation enacted last month has focused on its impact on Americans’ wallets. But it was also a victory for school choice and a massive blow to public education. It initially included measures to benefit home-schooling families and the final version benefited… |
2018-01-09 | |
| The new tax law poses a hidden threat to American democracy | Most attention on the tax legislation enacted last month has focused on its impact on Americans’ wallets. But it was also a victory for school choice and a massive blow to public education. It included measures that will benefit home-schooling families and those who use private schools… |
2018-01-08 | |
| The war on Christmas is a civil war | Earlier this fall, I walked past a fellow parent at my son’s baseball practice wearing a t-shirt stating “I am being politically correct,” and emblazoned with phrases such as “God Bless America” and “Merry Christmas.” I tried… |
2017-12-21 | |
| The past, present, and future of democratic education in America | In the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War, Americans began to develop a robust school system. Yet back then, like today, disagreement was pervasive regarding the kind of education that was needed, who should pay for it, and how schools should be… |
2017-11-22 | |
| Commentary: WGU accepts financial aid without aid of a faculty | By Johann H. Neem In 2011, after much controversy, the Washington’s Legislature recognized online Western Governors University, a Utah-based nonprofit with no professors, as a state public college. Soon after, WGU became eligible to receive State Need Grant funds,… |
2017-11-06 | |
| History’s Johann Neem to Present ‘Why Do We Have Public Schools?’ Oct. 25 at City Hall | 2017-09-29 | ||
| Online education on notice | Johann Neem, professor of history, Western Washington University I was asked to explore how the recent Department of Education Office of Inspector General’s findings might shape how Western Governors University and similar institutions should approach the faculty… |
2017-09-27 |