Ron Paul Wants to Abolish Public Schools
While us progressives are busy reading (or not reading) Diane Ravitch’s Reign of Error, Ron Paul’s anti-progressive, right wing Tea Party folks and followers are reading The School Revolution. I came across a review of this book in The New Republic. What concerns me are the recent discussions and blog posts here and elsewhere about finding […]
My 8 year old cries foul on testing.
At last week’s school board meeting in my rural Western New York community an excellent discussion on testing occurred, focusing on the use of progress monitoring assessments. Several families, including mine, have made the decision to boycott all assessment that is mandated by federal or state policy. Our district uses a Pearson product called AIMSweb […]
Ravitch Seeks Broad Reforms to End Reign of Error
Reblogged from InterACT: Just in time for its official release tomorrow, I've finished reading an advance copy of Diane Ravitch's new book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools. For people who have been following education policy debates long enough and already know that they tend to […]
The Relentless Bully Politics Continues in SC
Superintendent of Education Mick Zais can’t help himself. He is so enamored with his misinformation-as-talking-points that he is willing to visit and shame a high-poverty elementary school. This is the other side of the coin for Zais who has previously visited a so-called high-flying school in order to shame all the other schools. In both cases, […]
9-16-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Tone, Tone, Tone: Prelude to REIGN OF ERRORAs a prelude to Diane’s book and my review to be posted tomorrow, my tone series: http://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/tone-pt-1-does-tone-matter-in-the-education-reform-debate/ http://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/tone-pt-2-on-hostile-rhetoric-laziness-and-the-education-debate/ http://radicalsc