In response to my post "Re: How Old Is the Shepherd? An Essay About Mathematics Education" [Hake (2014)] a Math-Teach subscriber posted under the pseudonym "Carleton Washburne" (2014):
"Someone is going to have to help me out here. Who is Richard Hake? Why is his post labeled {Spam?} Why is he criticizing not the content of my posts but their form? Is he some sort of Internet version of Miss Manners? And is there a limit to how many exclamation marks someone can use before his writing officially becomes self-satire?'
To which Robert Hansen (2014), probably taking clues from "Carleton Washburne's" strident advocacy of progressive education and his insulting rhetoric, responded:
"If I were to guess, you ["Carleton Washburne"] are Michael Goldenberg, and he is certainly aware of who Richard Hake is. You can go on record here and say that you are not Michael Goldenberg, or say something evasive. Or ignore the reference to Michael Goldenberg as you have been."
So far "Carleton Washburne" has made no *substantive* response to Hansen's reference to Michael Goldenberg. So the question remains:
Q. Who is "Michael Goldenberg," aka "Michael Paul Goldenberg"?
A. A Google search for "Michael Paul Goldenberg" (with the quotes) yielded 12,600 hits at <http://bit.ly/10oCmRz> on 06 Nov 2014 08:49-0800.
My comparison of MPG's posts on the first Google search hit "Rational Mathematics Education" (RME) <http://bit.ly/1ooedWM> with those of "CW" on Math-Teach at <http://bit.ly/1E78PJt> suggests that Hansen's guess that "CW" is MPG is *wrong*. Although both "CW" and MPG are strident advocates of progressive education and masters of insulting rhetoric, in my opinion "CW" lacks the astute judgement of MPG.
Another question is:
Q. Why does "CW" chose to post under the pseudonym "Carleton Washburne"?
A. Evidently in honor of the late progressive education champion Carleton Wolsey Washburne.
"Carleton Wolsey Washburne (December 2, 1889 – November 17, 1968) was an American educator and education reformer. He served as the superintendent of schools in Winnetka, Illinois, United States from 1919 to 1943 and is most notably associated with the Winnetka Plan <http://bit.ly/1x9mak7> that he developed for his district. . . . . . . . . he combined the ideas of Dewey with his experiences at the Francis W. Parker school to create a progressive education curriculum. His work caught the attention of Frederic Burk, the president of the San Francisco State Teachers College, who hired him to teach at the institution's affiliated elementary school. Washburne taught there for five years, serving as head of the science department. While there, he conducted research on preadolescence and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, becoming one of the first recipients of a doctorate in education."
See also "Carleton W. Washburne 1889–1968" [Meyer (1988)].
REFERENCES [URLs shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed on 06 Nov 2014.]
Hake, R.R. 2005. "Cross-Posting - Synergistic or Sinful?" Post of 1 Nov 2005 08:37:12-0800 to ITFORUM and AERA-L. Online at on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://bit.ly/arFlkd>.
Hake, R.R. 2014. "Re: How Old Is the Shepherd? An Essay About Mathematics Education," online on the OPEN! Math-Teach archives at <http://bit.ly/1zwPMuh>. Unapologetically cross-posted to Math-Teach, MathEdCC, Phys-L. and PhysLrnR - see "Cross-Posting - Synergistic or Sinful?" [Hake (2005)]l
Hansen, R. 2014. "Re: How Old Is the Shepherd? An Essay About Mathematics Education," online on the OPEN! Math-Teach archives at <http://bit.ly/1x7bqSt>. Post of 03 Nov 12:36 AM. The Math Forum fails to specify the time zone.
Meyer, A.L. 1988. "Carleton W. Washburne 1889–1968," Childhood Education 64(5). The first page is online at <http://bit.ly/1xarZvS>. Headed by a quote from (probably) H.G. Shane (1969): "Washburne was one of the great innovators in U.S. education. His record of creative leadership is all the more remarkable in that there was vigorous resistance to, rather than well-funded request for, socially desirable innovation during the era most influenced by his exceptional imagination, scholarship, and classroom knowledge. – Shane, 1969"
Shane, H.G., ed. 1969. "The United States and International Education. The Sixty-eighth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I" The University of Chicago Press. Amazon.com information at <http://amzn.to/10sjm50>.
Washburne, C. 2014. "Re: How Old Is the Shepherd? An Essay About Mathematics Education," online on the OPEN! Math-Teach archives at <http://bit.ly/1uBrL3i>. Post of 02 Nov 11:38 PM to Math-Teach. The Math Forum fails to specify the time zone.