Does the Common Core really motivate? Seriously.
The Common Core promoters are always in constant motion, but something has really struck a nerve with me lately. Does the Common Core motivate and inspire teachers? Two items have come my way recently that caused me to ask that question. The Common Core cheerleading started with an email from Commissioner John King linking to […]
Games? We Don’t Have Time for #Games!
I’d like to share the moment I realized that school was no longer a place for learning, but had instead become a place for training. In 2009, I taught math in a middle school in Oregon. It was close enough to the Common Core implementation that we were starting to hear the buzz and receive […]
The First #Finland Comparison I’ve Cared About in Months
I’ve told people that I’m tired of hearing the ongoing, back-and-forth debate about Finland’s educational model. Christine McCartney is a New York teacher currently teaching and researching in Finland, which means I’m more likely to listen to her. She has been putting together some pretty great material and resources to help put both sides in […]
The Pearson Test
DC schools bet the farm and then some on #commoncore. Good luck with that.
Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 6 minutes ago
DC loves its reform. Especially those based on faith, not evidence. Education Week writes about what they call the “common core era.” Wow, I thought, you know, at least six months had to pass before we’re officially in an era. In a year, it might be an epoch. How well the school district can reach […]
Celebrity Losing Popularity?
plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 6 minutes ago
George Parker looks at celebrity, building on the renewed interest in The Great Gatsby: What are celebrities, after all? They dominate the landscape, like giant monuments to aspiration, fulfillment and overreach. They are as intimate as they are grand, and they offer themselves for worship by ordinary people searching for a suitable object of devotion. […]
Today the CPS board will vote to enact the largest mass public school closing in American history.
Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 hour ago
Reblogged from Fred Klonsky: In typical Rahm fashion, four more schools have been removed from the closing list. CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett is expected to withdraw her recommendations to shutter Marcus Garvey Elementary School and Mahalia Jackson Elementary School on the South Side; Leif Ericson Elementary Scholastic Academy on the West Side, and George Manierre […]
NYSUT L2L
antiqueteacher60 at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 4 hours ago
As I actually had some time to read/clean out my email, I found this little gem. I am still on the “list” from my days as President of my local over a decade ago. Here we have it – NYSUT’s response to criticism about a Gates Foundation Grant. I must note that the email asks […]
solidaridad: End Racist Scholarship at Harvard University
rdsathene at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 8 hours ago
solidaridad: End Racist Scholarship at Harvard University. Filed under: ROBERT D. SKEELS: Schools Matter Tagged: bigotry, education, harvard, neo-eugenics, racism, white supremacy