A Dream Team for Obama’s Second Term?
The American Prospect invited a number of people to propose someone for President Obama’s cabinet in his second term. The basic idea was that this would be a “dream team,” so we could choose anyone we wanted. I was asked to recommend a new Secretary of Education.
Read here and devise your own “dream team” for President Obama.
Read here and devise your own “dream team” for President Obama.
How to Get a Docile Workforce
Some people have wondered what happened to the much ballyhooed film “Won’t Back Down.”
Recall that it was featured on NBC’s “Education Nation,” which is the showcase for the corporate reform movement; one of its stars was interviewed on “Ellen”; it had an elegant opening party at the New York Public Library; Michelle Rhee hosted showings at the two national political conventions.
Should have been a big hit, right? Wrong.
It opened in 2,5000 theaters
Recall that it was featured on NBC’s “Education Nation,” which is the showcase for the corporate reform movement; one of its stars was interviewed on “Ellen”; it had an elegant opening party at the New York Public Library; Michelle Rhee hosted showings at the two national political conventions.
Should have been a big hit, right? Wrong.
It opened in 2,5000 theaters
An Assessment Expert Explains What’s Wrong with Computer Adaptive Tests
Jem Muldoon has decided that it is time to speak and act. It is time to do what is right, not what is expedient. She wrote to tell me she has become an activist for education and will not follow orders that conflict with her knowledge and ethics. Hem is trying to find meaning and purpose at a time when public policy requires
NYC’s Biggest Tutoring Company Under Investigation
Ah, those private companies sure know how to do it right, don’t they?
In New York City, the city’s biggest provider of tutoring services is under investigation for inflated bills and other
In New York City, the city’s biggest provider of tutoring services is under investigation for inflated bills and other
When Did We Forget the Purpose of Education?
David Lentini writes, after reading Dr. Martin Luther King’s words on the purpose of education:
Thank you and your reader, Diane, for sharing these quotes. I’ve often complained that the most critical element in our debates and arguments over education policy–the very definition of “education”–has been ignored almost completely. Instead we seem to treat education as something that teachers “do”. And we seem to treat what teachers “do” as a matter of technique, not substance. So, for modern Americans the meaning of “education” has degenerated into a pointless argument over pedagogy.
I call these pedagogical arguments pointless precisely because we won’t discuss what we want an educated
Thank you and your reader, Diane, for sharing these quotes. I’ve often complained that the most critical element in our debates and arguments over education policy–the very definition of “education”–has been ignored almost completely. Instead we seem to treat education as something that teachers “do”. And we seem to treat what teachers “do” as a matter of technique, not substance. So, for modern Americans the meaning of “education” has degenerated into a pointless argument over pedagogy.
I call these pedagogical arguments pointless precisely because we won’t discuss what we want an educated
Don’t Forget what MLK Said and Did
There are a number of people who say they are promoting “the civil rights issue of our time” even as they advocate for schools that just happen to be segregated and that have no unions to represent their employees.
Jonathan Pelto reminds us what Martin Luther King Jr. said and did by providing the audio and video clips of his final days.
He died helping black sanitation workers in Memphis organize a union.
Please take the time to watch and listen.
And if you are a teacher, show it to your students and call it “informational text” so it relates to the Common Core.
Jonathan Pelto reminds us what Martin Luther King Jr. said and did by providing the audio and video clips of his final days.
He died helping black sanitation workers in Memphis organize a union.
Please take the time to watch and listen.
And if you are a teacher, show it to your students and call it “informational text” so it relates to the Common Core.
Minneapolis: EduShyster on How to Buy a School Board Seat
In today’s post, EduShyster travels to Minneapolis to explain how one very young man, after a brief stint in Teach for America, managed to buy a school board seat.
Teach for America, as explained in earlier posts
Teach for America, as explained in earlier posts
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