CCSS, the Corporate Profit Black Hole
Unleash the Power!!!!! The power of corporate education reform to generate profit for textbook, program, and testing corporations while childhood poverty in the US skyrockets and children continue to be cheated out of rich educational experiences… Sounds about right: —– I think Education Week accidentally published the cover from an upcoming new young adult science […]
Ask and receive: #Commoncore cereal!
Never too early to get college and career ready! Gotta have my jobs!
Thoughts on a teacher in a Catholic school fired for being a domestic abuse victim?
I’m torn on this issue. Unfair, dispassionate, and further stigmatizes domestic abuse survivors/victims. However, this could definitely be a safety issue for students at the school. Perhaps she could be put on paid leave until this blows over, maternity leave, some kind of leave. Sick leave? But outright termination seems unreasonable.
Coming Together for Solutions for Creating Respectful Learning Cultures
Coming Together for Solutions for Creating Respectful Learning Cultures.
Even the Canucks are profiting from our #commoncore obsession
From School Specialty of Canada, each grade level classroom can own one of their own Common Core State Standards kits. For Canada, wouldn’t they be called CC Province Standards, right? Thankfully, they are Title I funding approved. By the way, does Canada have Title I? Not sure about that one. Apparently, every kit comes […]
21st century… dance skills? YES!! #commoncore
The CASD has been released. Oh, you haven’t heard. Yes, it’s the Colorado Academic Standards for Dance. This seven page document just covers the Kindergarten.Dance.Standards. Standards have indeed jumped the shark. I have nothing further to say about this, maybe you can help me.
6-12-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: [image: gears] Improved School Safety Requires a Balanced Approach by John Thompson It speaks well of the UCLA Civil Rights Project that in addition to their own research they commissioned scholars from the Consortium of Chicago School Research and equally great institutions to analyze what schools can do to better support students. The Consortium has a long history of placing quantitative and qualitative evidence in a longitudinal […] Solidarity and My Name: Some Thoughts by plthomasedd I have written about this before at this blog: John P... more »