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During the 12 years Howe taught at GSE—1982 to 1994—he was a major proponent of expanding the definition of education as it was understood by academics...
...review of his 1993 book Thinking About Our Kids: An Agenda for American Education, the Washington Post called Howe a “font of wisdom and good sense about children and schools...
...Howe was a vocal critic to the recent accountability movement, and argued holding children to arbitrary academic standards is discriminatory...
...test kids who have poor lives and inadequate schooling, flunk them and say they didn’t meet the standards. You must first improve their lives and schooling, and then give the test,” Howe said...
...Howe graduated from Yale College in 1940. He then entered the U.S. Navy, serving as a minesweeper captain in World War II before earning a master’s degree in history from Columbia University...