Peter Cohee

May 4, 2024

Doktormutter and Languages of Old

Professor Slater taught me how to prepare and read as a serious student, not imposing my vain and lazy interpretation on a text but mastering the granular details of a language to make the vast s......

September 10, 2014

Revisiting the Classics: Michel de Montaigne

Peter Cohee

Dr. Peter Cohee teaches Classics in the Boston area. Here he reviews essays of Michel de Montaigne.

January 15, 2013

Teacher Movie Mythology and Won't Back Down

Peter Cohee

While most movies about teachers seem mythical, the recent movie Won't Back Down is a different type of teacher movie.

September 17, 2012

Exam Schools: Choice, Quality, and the Right Fit

Peter Cohee

Chester Finn and Jessica Hockett's new book on exam schools surveys selective high schools and their effectiveness.

February 24, 2011

Mission: Preparation

Peter Cohee

Activism-as-learning begins before college, through the influence on schools of groups such as Facing History and the Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation. What are we preparing students f......

August 17, 2010

Ravitch Repentant

Peter Cohee

Peter Cohee reviews Diane Ravitch's book, a partial volte-face, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

June 29, 2010

Evaluate This

Peter Cohee

A seasoned public school teacher concludes: teacher evaluations as they are don't make teachers better, don't get rid of bad teachers, aren't needed by good teachers, and don't improve......

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