Safety and Excellence

31 John Merrow 2004 Safety and Excellence <p> Education broadcaster John Merrow is one of our favorite "thinkers" about school and education issues. Merrow, the host of PBS's The Merrow Report and a Peabody Award winner for his education documentaries, offers his usual thought-provoking insights in this article on school safety, published in the Fall 2004 issue of Educational Horizons, the magazine of Pi Lambda Theta. "As far as schools are concerned," Merrow writes, "there are three kinds of safety: physical, emotional, and intellectual. Excellence demands all three, while 'good enough' schools are simply physically safe." Merrow agrees with author-educator Lisa Delpit that zero tolerance policies "make zero sense," and he explains why here. (50k PDF file) </p> <p> Merrow, J (2004). Safety and excellence. Educational horizons, Fall 2004. Retrieved from Pi Lambda Theta 4 Apr 2008. Link: http://www.pilambda.org/horizons/v83-1/Merrow.pdf </p> http://www.pilambda.org/horizons/v83-1/Merrow.pdf