How the Common Core is Being Sold
There’s nothing like a small town newspaper for a glimpse into how the Common Core Standards and tests are being sold to a trusting public. This is how the Common Core is being marketed in Palmyra PA. “You are not going to see test prep in our classrooms,” Brown says. Instead, you’ll see kids getting […]
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Global reforms are just that. Global. The same damage is being inflicted worldwide to schools in large and small communities, causing distress and doing nothing to improve education. Often quite the opposite. This is Cedar, a small community in Canada. I only heard about Cedar because my gorgeous friend James lives there. James isn’t a […]
Racism Built into the System to Mask Racism
Lisa Wade explains about stand your ground laws: It’s simple: stand your ground laws increase the chances that a homicide will be considered justifiable because it gives the jurors more leeway to give defendants the benefit of the doubt. But, jurors will likely give that benefit of the doubt to certain kinds of defendants and […]
I am happy to see we are not eschewing the issue of #nojustice
Other authors beat me to it. I’m happy to see that. I am one of six founders of United Opt Out National and, like all well-mannered activist groups in the 21st century, we have a Facebook presence. We have done a great job over the years avoiding the sidetracking of discussions. Like all new groups […]
Trayvon Martin Convicted: Sentence to Run Concurrent with Eternity
If this case teaches anything, it is that the high crime of involuntary racism regularly has more insidious and corrosive effects than the premeditated variety. There was the 1) tepid prosecution by unprepared and inattentive prosecutors; 2) a defense that was allowed highly-irregular concessions to make its case; 3) an investigative team friendly to gun-toting […]
Social Justice?
“The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer.” — James Baldwin. The Nation (July 11, 1966) “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King Jr. Letter From Birmingham City Jail Blinded by the Stereotype Spotlight “The Poor Are Too Free”?: Unlocking […]
7-13-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Educators in OK developing their own #commoncore assessmentsThis, from State Impact Indiana: …Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Janet Barresi estimated the state can save at least $2 million a year if it develops its own test rather than go with the PARCC exam. This is how it all works. States, as mandated by the USDE, with influence from the private se
All Week 7-13-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: TODAYKids Count on Public Education, Not Grit or “No Excuses” | the becoming radicalKids Count on Public Education, Not Grit or “No Excuses” | the becoming radical.by plthomasedd / 1h YESTERDAYCorporate Education’s Friend, Randi WeingartenDiane Ravitch has at her blog an unmoving tribute to her friendship with Randi Weingarten, and AFT is soaking it for all i