More Teachers, Parents and Citizens speak out against CCSS
K Teacher of 20 years I have been teaching for 191/2 years. I teach kindergarten. Most of my students are not ready for common core. When I read then a book and teach them a skill for example like predicting and ask them what I just taught them they would say you taught us about mice because that is what the story was about. Most of my students can’t even write their name or draw a picture. My pr
Questions abound as more horror stories emerge from New Bethany Home for Girls and Boys in Arcadia and Longstreet
Reblogged from Louisiana Voice: Do it in the name of heaven, You can justify it in the end. —One Tin Soldier by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter As more and more revelations come to light about the treatment of residents of the New Bethany Home for Girls and Boys in Arcadia and similar homes run by Rev. Mack Ford and wife Thelma in other localities, many serious questions remain unanswered. Read
Neil Riser campaign worker linked to defunct church girls' home, accusations of sexual abuse by father-in-law minister
Reblogged from Louisiana Voice: © 2013 Two men with ties to a defunct church-operated home for girls and boys in Bienville Parish—and to the Baptist minister and accused sexual predator who ran the facility—currently are actively involved in the congressional campaign of State Sen. Neil Riser (R-Columbia), LouisianaVoice has learned. Timothy Johnson of Choudrant in Lincoln Parish, who was fired e
Baltimore Parent Arrested for Speaking Up at School Board Meeting
Reblogged from Diane Ravitch's blog: This comment came from a reader: "Dear Diane, Please see http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/blog/bs-md-co-common-core-arrest-20130920,0,7127220.story My partner attended this Common Core parent forum on 9.19.13 in Baltimore County, MD, where we live, and she witnessed this parent being removed from the meeting by a security guard for sta