Common Core State [sic] Standards
Alone among policy heavyweights, Vallas conveys reform fears
Ohanian Comment:
Here's the announcement of the launch of the new City University of New York's new Institute for Education Policy:
CUNY Chancell...
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INDEX OF COMMON CORE [SIC] STANDARDS
Data Command Center
Evidence-Based Practice, Best Practices, and Other Lies: Follow the Money
by Susan Ohanian
Teachers, who are often told they should aspire to be more like doctors, might have something to learn from Dr. Groopman's comment on recent changes forced on ...
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INDEX OF DATA COMMAND FORCE
Commentaries
Change the purpose of education
This is from Standard-Examiner, May 15, 2013. Lynn Stoddard asks readers to "open the door...
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INDEX OF COMMENTARIES
Duncanisms
We Should Keep Online Testing, But We Should Learn From ISTEP+ Failures
But again, directionally, having computer-adaptive tests, having the ability to evaluate way more than just fill-in-the-bubble stuff -- the critical thinking skills -- directionally, it's the right wa...
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INDEX OF DUNCANISMS
Gerald Bracey tributes
Here's a Link to Gerald Bracey's Website
You'll find LOTS of articles here....
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INDEX OF GERALD BRACEY TRIBUTES
RTTT & NCLB Outrages
DIBELS Abuse in Tennessee
Ohanian Comment: I received this message from a Tennessee mom. It is a reminder that DIBELS is still used to abuse children. Richelle Deharde said she is happy for her na...
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INDEX OF RTTT & NCLB OUTRAGES
The Eggplant
U. S. Youth Engage in Arne Duncan's Favorite Season of the Year
Some students taking the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment test found themselves suddenly logged out during the test; others discovered that the test would not accept correct answers. "I was k...
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Outrage of the Day
Larry Ellison's Dangerous America's Cup The new boats have made the race life-threatening—and have dumbed down the sailing.
The recent America's Cup catastrophe in San Francisco Bay--and who makes the rules in sailing competition--has parallels with school reform, to wit:
INDEX OF OUTRAGES OF THE DAY
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Quotes
"Kids and their teachers need to know about General John E. Hull. He was in charge at the American Air Force base at Iwakuni, Japan, on a May morning in 1955 when twenty-five Japanese women, badly crippled and disfigured by the atomic blast at Hiroshima, were to begin their trip for medical help in America. They were already aboard the U. S. Air Force plane when an aide dashed up to General Hull with an urgent cable from Washington. Not wishing to risk repercussions should the Hiroshima women encounter medical complications, a committee at the State Department had ordered the flight canceled. For a long moment, General Hull said nothing. Then he handed the cable back to his aide. 'Unfortunately, I don't have my reading glasses with me,' he said. 'Be sure to remind me to read this later.' And the plane took off."
—Susan Ohanian, Who's In Charge: A Teacher Speaks Her Mind
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NCLB In Your Face
Ask About the Administration's Suggestions to Revise the ESEA
You can borrow Stephen Krashen's fine questions for the Administration. Send them in! Use them for newspaper op eds. Share them with your PTA.
by Kent Will...
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Resisters' Letters
To the editor
Regarding Kirk McDonald's Sorry, College Grads, I Probably Won't Hire You (op-ed May 10): Mr. McDonald, I ...
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INDEX OF LETTERS
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Yahoo, Good News!
Why I am Running for School Board--Sue Peters
Anyone who has followed Seattle Education blog knows how knowledgeable Sue Peters is. And anyone who hasn't followed it, should. Seattle Education blog covers issues that matter to all of us.
by Sue Peters
For the past nine years, I have been deeply involved in Seattle's public schools, as a parent of two, a s...
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INDEX OF YAHOO, GOOD NEWS!
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