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by Kris Nielsen
New York Education Commissioner, John King, has partnered with Education Reform Now! to start getting private businesses on board with the Common Core State Standards. Nobody in education really buys any of this garbage, so King has decided to start getting businesses to sign on and wrap a huge media campaign around it. Hey, Exxon-Mobil […]
by Timothy D. Slekar
Ed. Dept. Launches Competition for Kindergarten Entry Assessments “Kindergarten-entry assessments are designed to measure a child’s “essential domains of school readiness,” which include language and literacy development, cognition and general early knowledge, readiness to learn, physical well-being, and social and emotional development.” @the chalkface is developing the “NON essential domains of school readiness” kindergarten entry […]
by Chalk Face, PhD
A bubble test for gym. Stay classy. But I have to mention the following. I am actually a former ACE-certified personal trainer. I know this stuff. And these are pretty terrible questions about weight training. Leg press is a compound exercise that also works out the hamstrings. Weight training rarely uses the push-pull concept anymore. […]
by plthomasedd
ANNOUNCEMENT Launching i2: Innovative Innovators FAQs What is i2? i2 is a venture designed to recruit and train educators without any experience or expertise in innovation, entrepreneurship, or cagebusting to serve as consultants for innovators, entrepreneurs, and cagebusters. Who will i2 serve? Innovators stuck in an innovation rut. Entrepreneurs (and Edupreneurs) trapped inside the entrepreneurial […]
by antiqueteacher60
Yesterday, I attended a day of Professional Development offered by our local BOCES Center. The title “Math and Technology Integration” sounded fairly benign, and I agreed to attend when asked by my Principal if I would be interested. The day long “training” also included some prizes – an iPad and an iPevo document camera for […]
by Jim Horn
With the one year extension on student loan rates set to expire July 1, the President is following his standard negotiating strategy of carving out a position just to the left of proto-fascists’ mouthpiece, John Boehner: the President has come out in favor of allowing the manipulators of Wall Street to determine interest rates for student loans. This would have the immediate effect of increasing the Stafford loan rate from 3.4 to 5, thus making the Everest of student debt even higher, while making it more likely that the non-privileged will never have a shot at college.
Even if the poor children who survive the sterilizing ed reform charter schools get accepted to a college that is not one of the predatory matchbook schools for the poor, then they will surely be saddled with school debt that means indefinite
With the one year extension on student loan rates set to expire July 1, the President is following his standard negotiating strategy of carving out a position just to the left of proto-fascists’ mouthpiece, John Boehner: the President has come out in favor of allowing the manipulators of Wall Street to determine interest rates for […]
I thought I was about to read yet another news story about Michelle Rhee and DC schools when I saw this headline: Big egos don’t produce success, study finds Instead, I found an article about research addressing students who feel entitled. Yet, I cannot help thinking that the headline from Australian Geographic is a potential […]
Could this be the first significant step in the beginning of the end of school resegregation in America? From the Education Law Center: Federal Civil Rights Complaint Brought by Parents and Community Groups Parents and community groups filed a complaint with the federal Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights, on May 20, 2013. They charge the New […]
I was directed towards the following site for information on the Chicago school disruptions. It has absolutely everything you need to know. But one of the things I was wondering, which prompted the suggestion for Schoolcuts, was the kinds of re-routing kids would have to experience. I asked for an exemplary route and was given William […]
“There is a problem here” (Houston, We have a problem) John Merrow on what his wife’s response to the what is going on in this test driven, punish the teachers education deform. Thank you Shaun and Tim for bringing us some real journalism and journalist John Merrow on Rhee, DC and High Stakes Testing Testinghttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/chalkface/2013/05/23/special-episode-of-at-the-chalk-face-w-john-merrow […]
Western New York has been a hot bed of high-stakes testing resistance this year. This media report from our local CBS affiliate is the most comprehensive look at assessment issues I have seen anywhere in the “mainstream media”. Thank you to @RachelKingston4 for the detailed research. Follow the author on twitter @stoptesting15 Filed under: CHRIS […]
