Oscar winning lessons or B-Movie scripts? #CCSS
This week in Albany the Network Team Institute is meeting again to move New York’s Common Core agenda forward. Some of the activity is based around the “modules” which basically script out entire units, lessons, and even homework. As an educator and parent I am very concerned about this push of what I consider […]
National Council on Teacher Quality teams up with SearchSoft Solutions, Inc. to boost profits
“The education industry represents, in our opinion, the final frontier of a number of sectors once under public control… represents the largest market opportunity… the K-12 market is the Big Enchilada.” — Montgomery Securities prospectus quoted in Jonathan Kozol National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)’s dubious reputation for manufacturing “research” beneficial to the neoliberal education […]
Former TFAers Launch Campaign Against TFA July14
Registration information here for entire conference, July 11-14. From the website: Calling all critical Teach For America (TFA) alumni and students, teachers, and community members impacted by TFA! Join us to organize resistance to TFA’s role in market-based educational reform. During this national assembly, you’ll have an opportunity to hear an overview of the complex role TFA […]
@katieosgood_ speech outside Mayor Emanuel’s house, from @dianeravitch
Check out At the Chalk Face’s own Katie Osgood here at Diane Ravitch’s blog. Well, she is her own person, but you get what I mean. You can also hear from her from last Sunday’s episode of At the Chalk Face.
Farewell to Mayor Villaraigosa: Pragmatist or Lacky of the Rich?
Farewell to Mayor Villaraigosa: Pragmatist or Lacky of the Rich?. via Farewell to Mayor Villaraigosa: Pragmatist or Lacky of the Rich?.
My response to the response of the initial response on the @aftunion “survey” @rweingarten
I can’t do this on Twitter. I just can’t. I wrote this yesterday about the AFT survey. My concerns in that post were not necessarily related to the methods of Hart. That’s already been addressed. I was responding to a Facebook comment, whereby an educator referred to the survey as “proving” 75% approval of the CCSS […]
KIPP, the Latest Philanthropic Solution to the “Negro Problem”
In the decades following the Civil War, the Hampton Institute served to indoctrinate former slaves to become teachers. These teachers, whose behavioral and moral training had taken precedence over their academic preparation, then fanned out across the South to carry the message that black children’s unique racial disability and lack of culture had left them […]
7-8-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Arne Duncan in Philadelphia “Fascinated” about His Mentor Vallas in CTArne Duncan had a great chance to do something for Philadelphia in 2010 when their application for $100 million in RTTT money was turned down. Instead, Philly got $6 million over four years, which was designated by Arne to develop a teacher eval scheme based on VAM test scores. Meanwhile, Duncan