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Demand the Impossible! (excerpt # 4) - A pervasive and frantically promoted proposition that runs loose in the land is that being a military powerhouse makes the United States (and people everyw...3 days ago
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Is Secretary King seeking to legally plunder homeschooling? - Frederic Bastiat wrote “The Law” in 1850 soon after the French Revolution of February 1848 when France was rapidly turning to complete socialism. (Oh that...4 days ago
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Default Rates Skyrocketing - DEBT JUBILEE NOW - We need a debt jubilee now to help BOTH borrowers and taxpayers.4 weeks ago
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The Limited Efficacy of "School Reform:" Drugs - I don’t know about anyone else; but I must say I often find myself thinking that “school reform” fails for the most basic reasons. It fails because *schoo...
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Childhood Is - Childhood is fleeting. The days rush by like subway trains as I stand at the station feeling the rush of air as another one departs. The hundreds of thousa...3 months ago
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Sunset Park Fifth Graders Hold a Human Rights Fundraiser - As the 2015-2016 school year comes to a close, many students and educators nervously await the release of scores that, according to state and local educati...3 months ago
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The Pearson Stranglehold - *“I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.” * ― Martin Luther King Jr. Teachers Colle...
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ShotSpotter and what it can do for Sacramento, CA - What is ShotSpotter? In Sacramento, CA officials are looking at and raising money to install several systems to pinpoint gunshot locations to better protec...4 months ago
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PARCC Can Go Scratch! Please Re-Post on your Blog. Share Widely. - Here is the critique of the 4th grade PARCC exam. by an anonymous teacher, as it originally appeared on Celia Oyler’s blog before she was threatened by PAR...4 months ago
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To simply say you have a growth mindset does not mean you actually have one - By definition, you cannot have a growth mindset when learning is anchored to standardized tests. Standardized tests are a one … Continue reading →4 months ago
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MY NEW BLOG - My new blog will consist of fictitious headlines, meant to be a blend of humor and satire. I apologize ahead of time if any other satirical site has simila...4 months ago
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Why I will NOT be going to the Teacher Appreciation party co-sponsored by the Oakland Public Ed Fund. - Classroom Struggle is honored to post a letter written by a Special Ed. teacher urging her fellow teachers to skip the annual “Teacher Appreciation” party ...
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Administrative Law 101: Administrators Must Implement the Law as Written - After carefully reviewing the proposed regulations, the statutes those regulations purport to implement, the enabling statute setting forth the New Jersey ...
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Dear White Educators - Dear White Educators, I struggle with you. I struggle with me. I struggle with how, if, and when to write us this letter. There is no perfect time, no perf...5 months ago
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Breaking Down Barriers in Sexual and Reproductive Health Reporting in Africa - *This is a guest post by Humphrey Nabimanya, founder of Reach a Hand Uganda. * [image: 2016-04-15-1460736651-1435623-huffpo1.jpg]*Journalists and bloggers...5 months ago
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School Closures: A Blunt Instrument - By Rachel M. Coheb | Originally Published by American Prospect April 11, 2016 | Photographic Credit; School Closures This article appears in the Spring 201...5 months ago
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Random House published my new book SCHOOLS ON TRIAL - On February 16th, Doubleday, an imprint of Random House, published my new book SCHOOLS ON TRIAL: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malprac...5 months ago
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NYS Tests: Has anything really changed? - When I wrote my blog post last year, The Truth about New York State Testing, I thought to myself… if only I could really tell the whole truth about the tes...6 months ago
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Thank you - Dear Readers, Thank you for visiting *The Perimeter Primate*. This blog is being retired for the time being. Although I no longer post here, I do still s...6 months ago
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New Jersey State BOE Testimony: 1/11/16 - Good afternoon and thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is Melissa Katz and I am a junior in the 5-year Integrated Bachelor’s and Master of Arts...
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Are American Students Over-tested: Schleicher vs. Schleicher - Just as the U.S. is about to move away from over testing its students, PISA’s Andreas Schleicher says American students are not really over-tested: “The U....9 months ago
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60% of WI disapproves of Walker’s job performance in WPR/St. Norbert poll - This comes from a poll with a small sample: 603. Notables: 57 percent of those polled say that Wisconsin is headed in the wrong direction. Russ Feingold le...11 months ago
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I am Retiring - I have some news: I am retiring from the PBS NewsHour and Learning Matters. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other conte...1 year ago
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One day you knew - My goodness, it is nearly August in the land of Gee Emm Ohh milk and honey. This is a post I have put off as long as I could but the time has come to share...1 year ago
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All Aboard the Opt Out Bus - The #OptOutBus is currently traveling the country giving away free books to children! Follow their progress at their Facebook page and donate to their FR...1 year ago
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Time To Say Goodbye - As some of you may have already noticed, I'm shutting down District 299. I created the blog way back in the day (2005) when when I realized that Chicago ed...1 year ago
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New Titles Help Students Cope With High Stakes Testing - As students around the country prepare to take and fail a battery of state exams based on the Common Core standards, Amazon.com has compiled a list of book...
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A Teacher Tries Opting Out - This is my first blog post and kind of the reason I decided to create my own blog: to keep people updated on what is going on with my request, as a teacher...1 year ago
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Flaws at the Heart of Current Education Reforms - Originally posted on Creative by Nature: “Teaching is an art form rooted in the wise and careful use of educational research and assessment tools. When gove...1 year ago
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Educating Children Is an Essential Public Enterprise - Notes from the Field Submitted by Frank Murphy In the olden times of the Twentieth Century, education tales made for boring stories. Those were the days wh...1 year ago
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Revised Policy Statement Released - On the eve of the Chicago mayoral election, Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Education (CReATE), a network of education researcher...1 year ago
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Who's to Blame for Oil Waste in Californians' Drinking Water? - *By Briana Mordick* Natural Resources Defense Council New information from the California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) reveal...1 year ago
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my response to john merrow - In response to What a Difference a Dash Makes! by John Merrow Dear Mr. Merrow, I believe you know EXACTLY what is going on; you are simply too smart and ...1 year ago
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Have a Duct-Tape Free Day of Silence! - We’ve received reports from a number of organizers who have suffered problems after wearing duct tape on their mouths. As a consequence we feel it is imp...1 year ago
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Joanne Barkan: One of my favorite writers on #EdReform… - I’ve been going through some of my Twitter “favorites” and retweeting them. I thought I would pass on to you some information about one of my favorite writ...1 year ago
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Spanish Readers’ Blog: 2014 en resumen - Spanish Readers’s blog con la ayuda de WordPress ha preparado su reporte anual para el año que termina (Vea el 2013): Un resúmen: La sala de conciertos de ...1 year ago
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New Beginnings: Kickstarter and EdWeek Teacher - Greetings to InterACT readers one and all! If you’ve been following posts here recently you might recall that I’m moving my blogging activity to other loca...2 years ago
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Pay Teachers Less to Improve School Efficiency - hmmm! - As I was reading through education news on several of the news sites I regularly visit, I came...2 years ago
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A Call for the Next Phase in the Resistance - Originally posted on the becoming radical: Teachers at every level of schooling have struggled against two powerful social claims: (i) education has always...2 years ago
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Seven of Campbell Brown's Funders Come Clean - Campbell Brown's courageous stand to take on teacher tenure protections has recently come under some fire because her Partnership for Educational Justic...
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Please share this testing survey with 5th-6th grade parents/students - PLEASE SHARE THIS IMPORTANT SURVEY WITH CPS 5th and 6th grade PARENTS AND STUDENTS! Deadline April 23. Dear Parent or Guardian, I am conducting a research ...2 years ago
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Kimberly Olson, Broad Superintendents Academy Class of 2005 - Kimberly D. Olson, Colonel, USAF (retired), is currently the Executive Director of *Grace After Fire*, an online social support network for women veteran...5 years ago
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