Commentaries

A Talk to Teachers
This talk was delivered October 16, 1963, as "The Negro Child – His Self-Image"; originally published in The Saturday Review, December 21, 1963, reprinted in The rest of the story...

INDEX OF COMMENTARIES

Duncanisms

Reforming Education To Fill Technical Jobs In Minnesota

At a time of high unemployment, we actually have over 2 million high-wage jobs that are going unfilled....
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INDEX OF DUNCANISMS

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 Gerald Bracey tributes

21st-Century Skills: Ban It, or Rename It?
Ohanian Comment: I put "rename 21st century skills" into Google and this is what came up. I didn't look at author but just started reading, enjoying the letter more and ...
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INDEX OF GERALD BRACEY TRIBUTES

 RTTT & NCLB Outrages

Standardized Tests – Your Rights and the Impact on Your Child
Go to the website for this interview. There's a spectacular picture of the Colorado billboard and a provocative discussion among people who take education seriously. Go there a...
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INDEX OF RTTT & NCLB OUTRAGES

 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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 Yahoo, Good News! 

Flora, Now in English
No longer will botanists have to write sentences like: "Arbor usque ad 6
m alta. Folia decidua; lamina oblanceolata vel elliptica-oblongata, 2-7
cm longa," as I did in 2...
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 Quotes

"I don't know if I can be objective or make any sense on the subject of assessment. Sort of like a post-traumatic-stress syndrome; when I hear the test, scores, standards, accountability, and so on, I either want to run screaming from the room or go on the attack, foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog. "

—a California teacher

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 Militarization of Our Schools

U.S. Secretary of Education Duncan to Join Army Chief of Staff Gen. Casey in Announcing 'Project Pass' in Radcliff, Ky
U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. has been in the Army since 1970. There is no record of how many public schools he has been in during this time, but he did wo...
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INDEX OF MILITARIZATION OF OUR SCHOOLS

 Resisters' Letters

 Outrages

Gov. Brownback's plan to post teachers' rankings causes outcry; GOP senator describes plan as 'toxic'
These political decisions to tie teacher ratings to student test scores--and make them public-- are so common that by now they hardly register. When will some teacher group pu...
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INDEX OF FEATURED OUTRAGES

 Sarah's Notes 

Mrs. Puglisi's 100 National Standards
by Sarah Puglisi I just read a nice editorial about HOW RELIEVED a newspaper is if we have National Standards. In the New York Times, you can read it
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INDEX OF SARAH'S NOTES

 Stupid Test Items

California History-Social Science Standards Test
A student teacher comments: The correct answer was a). That the word relocated in a question could possibly be paired with an answer that has freedom in it is a...
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 Research that Counts

A New Twist in the Sad Saga of Little Albert with some Footnotes about G. Reid Lyon
Anyone who took psychology in college knows about John Watson the famous behaviorist. He was also an advertising executive, what a 1928 New Yorker profile described as the "s...
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INDEX OF RESEARCH THAT COUNTS

 The Eggplant

Why DID the Chicken Cross the Road?
I. Educationists Know the Answer Because he recognized what I've said repeatedly, we really need to elevate the profession of teaching and you can't win the Race to the to...
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 WOO News

Congratulations, WOO!

Ohanian Comment: The hometown newspaper that has studiously ignored the WOO finally pays tribute to accomplishment. On July 29, The WOO held its 2006 GED Graduation & St...
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 Cartoon

United Corporations of America
by Robert Rendo

INDEX OF CARTOONS

 NCLB Cartoon

The 99% Public School Reality
This cartoon by Pat Bagley, appearing in the Salt Lake Tribune, captures what Public School is coming to mean to 99% of our children: over-crowding, rigid rules, oppressive test-prep curriculum, and so on. Can you see any joy in these children's faces? Notice the Acme Security Glass, protecting the 1% from everybody else.

INDEX OF NCLB CARTOONS

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