The World’s Greatest Teacher – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER:
by Kris Nielsen
I’m going to take a short break from my activism to honor the world’s best teacher. Seriously! THE best teacher. In. The. World.
And it’s NOT this guy
When I was 18, I went to a huge graduation commencement ceremony at New Mexico State University’s Pan American Arena to watch the graduating class of 1993 (or was is 1992? I’m starting to get old). I sat too far away to make out the faces under the mortar boards, but I do remember seeing a group of four grads with their mortars cleverly spelling out, “Will Teach 4 Food.” I sat through the entire ceremony just to hear one name: Marsha Nielsen.
She was one of the grads with the aforementioned marked mortars, although I can’t remember which one. I do remember clapping my hands hard enough to hurt and yelling at the top of my lungs’ capacity when they called her name. I remember I was the only loud one in the nosebleed section, and that people
by Chris Cerrone
So I come across this Buffalo News article discussing the dirty little secret that most schools in New York State (and the nation?) are not meeting the minimum requirements of Physical Education for our children. The lack of compliance would not surprise most educators, but are parents aware? What stuck me as I read this […]
by Chalk Face, PhD
This is becoming a rather interesting story within the testing debate that few anticipated in the run up to new assessment regimes. I’ve certainly had to rely on many prominent education activists like Leonie Haimson for information on this. Tech company inBloom is a major player in all of this. As you can see from […]
by Chalk Face, PhD
From Peg with Pen. Show Peggy your support by commenting how much you want her to write for us on a regular basis. The admissions of error, the requests for moratoriums, the recognition that perhaps testing has gone too far, are running like wildfire in the last few weeks. We have Randi calling for a moratorium. […]
