Bill McCallum Responds to My Post
“How I Spend My Spare Time” I recently wrote a post entitled, “A Sane Reply to Bill McCallum: Why I Cannot Support the Common Core “State” Standards.” I addressed directly some of my concerns and gave some general reasons that I can’t go along with Bill McCallum’s request to join him in supporting CCSSI. As […]
Kansas Charter School Anticulturalism Sends Child Home in Tears
The protests that this situation has aroused is a good thing, but a much better thing would be for parents to get just as upset about the anticultural curriculum and chain gang behavior control as they now are about racist rules regarding hair styles.
1st Anniversary Repost: Writers Reflect on Chicago Strike (EdWeek) | the becoming radical
1st Anniversary Repost: Writers Reflect on Chicago Strike (EdWeek) | the becoming radical.
Localized VAM and Nationalized Scam
Part of the story we tell in TMoE focuses on how value-added modeling (VAM) grew up out of the backwoods of Tennessee to become an essential component of the national Common Core testing delivery engine that now appears to be running on fumes way short of its destination. Had anyone at the Gates Foundation or […]
Rick Hess and the Art of Truly Bad Writing
I have been teaching writing now for thirty years. Eighteen of those years were spent in a rural South Carolina high school, and more recently I have been teaching first year writing seminars at a selective liberal arts university. Young writers are quite predictable in their writing. They gravitate toward huge, sweeping claims, but shy […]
Ilana Horn: Recipe for Inequality
Recipe for inequality* 1. Find a metric that correlates to poverty. 2. Use it to measure quality. 3. Find that high poverty schools are bad. 4. Make schools’ resources dependent on quality. 5. Allow affluent to develop other revenue for their schools. 6. Close schools in poverty. 7. Justify school closures in high poverty neighborhoods […]
9-9-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: CharterlandFrom NEPC: BOULDER, CO (September 9, 2013) – “Good schools shouldn’t weed out kids. They should teach everyone.” That’s the bottom line of the new “CharterLand” infographic from the Opportunity to Learn Campaign of the Schott Foundation. Inspired by the venerable children’s game “Candy Land,” the infographic asks players to work their way past Hoop […]by
