• Here’s a Link to Gerald Bracey’s Website
• 21st-Century Skills: Ban It, or Rename It?
• Remembering Gerald Bracey
• What Jerry Bracey would have said about Locke High
• The problem is poverty: Evidence from Gerald Bracey
• Radical idea: Public schools aren’t an awful mess
• SALF-gate? 49,000 questions for Education Secretary Arne Duncan
• In Tribute to Gerald Bracey and His Campaign to Keep Education Pundits Honest
• Gadfly or Champion? Gerald Bracey, a little of both
• Jerry Bracey—equal opportunity critic
• Tribute to Jerry Bracey — Blogger and Friend
• Contrarian Writer Gerald Bracey Dies
• Gerald Bracey Will be Missed
• A gadfly remembered: Jerry Bracey
• Gerald Bracey is dead, but his voice lives on…
• RIP Gerald Bracey: Another Good Man Gone Down
• Biting critic of national education policy
• The death of Gerald Bracey is a loss for education
• Outspoken public schools advocate Bracey dies at 69
• Hello, Friends of Jerry Bracey
• If you have tears. . . .

• • Arne Duncan: Fund Community Colleges, Not Prisons
  • Ask the Teachers
  • Duncan Talks Obama Education Record at Mom Congress
  • Duncan Talks Obama Education Record at Mom Congress
  • Duncan Enlists Sharpton’s Civil Rights Network in Education Reform
  • Chicago Debate League
  • The New Platform for Learning
  • On a Legislative Proposal in South Carolina to Block Implementation of the Common Core Academic Standards
  • Secretary Arne Duncan Addresses the Fourth Annual IES Research Conference
  • The New Platform for Learning
  • Launching Project RESPECT
  • Reforming Education To Fill Technical Jobs In Minnesota
  • Duncan: It’s Time to Create Race to Top for Districts
  • State Warned on Race to Top
  • Three Steps to Fix Our Schools
  • A Well-Rounded Curriculum in the Age of Accountability
  • National Press Call on Race to the Top
  • 7 States Win Federal Competition
  • i3 Projects Receive $18 Million in Matching Funds from Private Sector
  • Delaware earns Race to the Top early childhood learning money
  • U.S. Adults Fare Poorly in a Study of Skills
  • Q-and-A: Back to school with Arne Duncan
  • Arne on Twitter
  • Education Secretary Arne Duncan warns not to ‘be alarmed’ by lower test scores
  • State’s tougher testing is hailed
  • Duncan Pushes Back on Attacks on Common Core Standards
  • We Should Keep Online Testing, But We Should Learn From ISTEP+ Failures
  • More Substantive and Lasting than a Bagel Breakfast
  • Choosing the Right Battles: Remarks and a Conversation Remarks of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
  • Beyond the Bubble Tests: The Next Generation of Assessments
  • Value Choices: Investing in High-Quality Preschool
  • The Tennessee Way: Lessons for the Nation
  • Partners for Success: Secretary Arne Duncan’s Remarks to the National Association of State Boards of Education
  • The New Platform for Learning
  • Arne Duncan on Fixing Dallas H.S.
  • Moving Forward, Staying Focused
  • Moving Forward, Staying Focused
  • speech, National Press Club
  • Mayors Should Run Schools
  • Democratic National Convention Speech

• Intrusive to the core: Feds overreach on ed standards
• Collaborating for the Common Core
• Lexia Introduces Lexia Reading Core5 for Mastery of Common Core Skills through Grade 5
• The ‘fighting spirit’ of the school committee
• Publishers Gear Up for The Common Core
• I Wandered Lonely as a Teacher
• STOP Common Core
• Heinemann Digital Campus
• William Blake Enters the Fourth Grade
• MetaMetrics Partners With ReadWorks to Provide Lexile Measures for Non-Fiction Reading Passage Bank
• PARCC Releases Initial Set of Test Items and Task Prototypes
• Six Degrees of Insanity: ‘Reforming’ Education
• With the Help of Student Achievement Partners, National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers Declare Computers Better than Teachers at Choosing Books
• Eight problems with Common Core Standards
• Yes, Those Standards ARE Gold
• Grade 8 Common Core ELA Sample Questions
• Market-Based Think Tank Opposes Common Core
• What Can We Do About the Common Core?
• Private firms eyeing profits from public schools
• Academics Form Group to Push Common Core
• FLORIDA COLLEGE SYSTEM TEACHER EDUCATOR PROGRAMS 1ST IN NATION TO IMPLEMENT COMMON CORE TEACHER TRAINING
• What’s a Math Educator to Do?
• Introducing an Instructional Framework Aligned to the Common Core State Standards
• Look at Who’s Partnering with Verizon to Bring Us Common Core Offal
• CEO Brizard Names Chief Transformation Officer to Lead New Office of Strategy Management
• Is inBloom Engaged in Identity Theft?
• Principal warns parents: ‘Don’t buy the bunk’ about new Common Core tests
• More Details on InBloom’s Plans for Student Data
• Common-Assessment Groups to Undergo New Federal Review Process
• Educational Accountability Red Flags
• Teaching Parents About the Common Core
• Susan Ohanian Responds to Marc Tucker re Common Core
• New School tests called excessive
• Vt. may piggyback on Maine school laptop contract
• Student education data cloud inBloom puts sensitive information at risk, jeopardizes the futures of city and state students
• Teaching Eight-Year-Olds to Sound Like Bankers
• From Tabloids to Tablets: News Corp Spends Big on LA School Board Race, Sets Sights on Public Education
• Conservatives poor stewards of education funds
• The Cost of Cuts: When we lose librarians, it’s the kids who suffer most
• PARCC Claims to Measure Skills Needed for ‘Life Beyond High School’
• A Letter from Randi Weingarten about Share My Lesson
• They’re Back!
• K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents
• How Many Reformers Does it Take to Really Fix a School?
• Bill Would Delay Next Generation Test Until Schools Have Technology Ready
• The truth about fiction
• Professor of Education Policy and Research Written Testimony Supporting the End of Common Core Standards Implementation
• New Curriculum on Tap Math, English Standards to Change for Kindergarten Through Eighth Grade
• What the Press Leaves out
• Whoo-Hoo! Occupy the Schools

Common Core: More Tests, But Not Better

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Dinosaurs and the Gospel

According to Snopes.com, this is the first page of an actual ‘science’ quiz given to fourth graders Blue Ridge Christian Academy, a private religious school. http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/09/creationism_in_school_science_quiz_gets_it_totally_wrong.html?utm_source=tw&utm;_medium=sm&utm;_campaign=button_toolbar

Union Thug

Grammarian, orator, geometrician; painter, gymnastic teacher, physician; fortune-teller, rope-dancer, conjuror,—she knew everything.

Vultures of a Feather

‘Not using poverty as an excuse. . . .’ –Arne Duncan making the Broad Prize 2013 announcement, as he flubs that other Houston school miracle worker Rod Price’s name, Sept. 25, 2013

Look at the suits stand and applaud each other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QxPz_q0ETg&sns;=em