solidaridad: Caprice Young: You can define me however you'd like and it still won't change the fact that we both want students to succeed

solidaridad: Caprice Young: You can define me however you'd like and it still won't change the fact that we both want students to succeed:

Caprice Young: You can define me however you'd like and it still won't change the fact that we both want students to succeed

by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene

Dr. Caprice Young took issue with my recent article about her on Schools Matter. She asked for an opportunity to publish her account of her career, and with quite a bit of misgiving, I relented. One thing about her rebuttal, she conflates my writing in the beginning of the my recent article with the anonymous letter that appeared in the second part of my article. The entire section of my article in block-quote that discusses EnCorps is, as explained in the original article, a letter from one of my readers. Although I do make some observations following that letter, the letter itself is not my prose, which should have been evident to Young by the change in narrative and style — alas. So wherever Young says "you say" in that section of her essay, she's really referring to the

Schools Matter: Vander Ark getting cranky regarding negative NEPC report

by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene

The true path to higher test scores is reading. — Dr. Stephen Krashen


My latest Schools Matter short: Vander Ark getting cranky regarding negative NEPC report examines how preposterous it was for disreputable businessman and former Gates Foundation executive Tom Vander Ark to try and criticize the distinguished professors of the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) at University of Colorado at Boulder School of Education.