The sky is falling & so are the Common Core test scores.
In New York State the new Common Core aligned state assessment results for third through eighth grade will be released on Wednesday. State education officials are warning schools to expect “lower student proficiency levels“. Diane Ravitch reported today that an administrator from a “high-achieving school” found a significant drop in their student scores on the […]
Short article from NYT Sunday Review by Robert Putnam
It’s a short read, a good one. It got me thinking. Take a community, any kind. Institute “school choice.” You have families with children, who could once bond over their children’s educations, broken apart, separated, because one family sends their kids to one school and the neighbors, to another. Maybe the kids can bond over, […]
Educating American Children Who Are in Chronic Poverty
Since America failed to win the War on Poverty, we have become used to a series of reports that promising programs have only achieved modest results. Whether we are discussing Head Start, housing vouchers, reduced class size, or increased spending for education or social services, it has become easy to over-simplify and say that nothing […]
8-4-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Charleston P&C: How Media Fails EducationThe Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) has a long history of endorsing every education reform movement that doesn’t have any credibility: Teach for America? Sure. Charter schools? You bet. So it comes as no surprise that the P&C has penned an endorsement of SC’s move to reform teacher evaluation, by framing the issue