Pleas for civility. Please! #edreform
Hither and thither on Twitter today, and perhaps from a post by Education Week, I’ve seen folks from the education deform camp plea for civility. That is, educators and parents and students are not affording folks like NY state education official John King enough respect. That we can indeed engage in civil debate. Civility? I […]
Aren’t All Children Equally Deserving?
Aren\’t All Children Equally Deserving?. via Aren’t All Children Equally Deserving?.
Teacher Education for schools as they are OR for schools as they should be? That is the question.
A mentor once told me that “our goal” in teacher education is not to prepare preservice teachers to teach in schools as they are but to prepare them “to teach in schools as they should be.” What does that actually mean? If enacted how would teacher education look? What would we do and/or not do? […]
Hess, Please Begin the Moratorium
I recently called for a moratorium on white men pontificating on race, class, and gender—prompted by a series of blogs by Michael Petrilli. So when I read Rick Hess’s “Teachers Deserve (But Have to Earn) Their Seat at the Table,” I immediately asked myself a few things: (1) Is this April 1?, (2) Has Hess finally become the […]
10-14-13 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: The Common Core Public License: Guess Who Wins?On October 10, 2013, I published a post, The Fight to Save Common Core: Count Me Out, in which I briefly discuss the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) public license. In this post, I more closely examine the CCSS license in order to offer a more detailed account of both its contents and the implications of those […]2 by deutsch29 /