A Snarky Letter for A Heartless Leader: My Response to TFA Chicago’s Josh Anderson
Dear Josh Anderson, Executive Director of Teach for America Chicago, After reading your piece entitled Q&A with Josh Anderson, TFA Chicago on the Teacher Layoffs, I felt the need to reach out to you. Perhaps you’ve never actually been inside a CPS school because you seem to not understand the very basic realities of this […]
“The Deliberately Silenced, or the Preferably Unheard” | the becoming radical
“The Deliberately Silenced, or the Preferably Unheard” | the becoming radical.
A year and two ago this month, how far we have/not come?
Posts from July 2012. This is What You Might Think When You’re Going Into #TFA Will #AFT Convention Draw a Line in the Sand? Why All the Khan-troversy? Talking with the Gates Foundation, or Seeking the Light and Buying the Hype Do those who like the #commoncore know the facts? (We miss you Stephen Krashen. Come back to us!) Posts from […]
Education as the Great Equalizer: “More Myth than Reality”
“While education has been envisioned as the great equalizer, this promise has been more myth than reality,” conclude Coley and Baker in a new report, Poverty and Education: Finding the Way Forward (ETS, July 2013). This data-rich examination of the relationship between education and poverty, both in the US and how that compares internationally, is yet another […]
Katie Osgood is killing it on #TFA! But how about across the “pond?”
I did not know this. But there’s an organization called Teach First in the UK with the exact goals as TFA: The initiative took on 1,261 handpicked graduates this year, 80% from leading Russell Group universities. All will have six weeks of intensive training before being sent to schools in underprivileged areas where they will work for […]
Congress Set to Profit from Student Loan Rates Determined by Wall Street Swindlers
If you ever wonder how the Feds are going to pay for the new era of non-risk corporate welfare farming, charter schools, preschools, for-profit college subsidies, military contractors, corporate welfare spy firms, etc., Congress has a plan. One drop in that national cash reserve for corporate non-emergencies was guaranteed yesterday, when the Senate passed student […]
7-24-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: No PARCCingHave your heard about the PARCC Asseesments? The Partnership for Assessment for Readiness for College and Careers is a collection of 22 states that will be producing a series of Common Core aligned exams. The PARCC Assessments are scheduled to begin in the 2014-15 school year. Promotion for the PARCC consortium has begun just as […]by Chris Cerrone / 3