Ok, @Chalkbeat, who’s your daddy? Seriously.
Saw this today, some sort of other newish chalk-education-oriented news service. Apparently, they’re expanding a bit. This has been some time coming, as the next step in evolution for a roughly year-old partnership between EdNews Denver and GothamSchools. According to the USA Today article, they’re mostly “foundation-funded.” There you go. Could not find a website […]
Teaching Strategies GOLD Parent Refusal Letter
Please see my first post regarding GOLD if you are unfamiliar with this assessment. Also, please see our early childhood guide if you are interested in gathering parents to help them in fighting these corporate initiatives. I promise to have this letter uploaded to our website at United Opt Out National soon. Please share this […]
Wisconsin Professor Testifies Against Common Core
In this 20-minute youtube video, Dr. Duke Pesta of the University of Wisconsin offers some informative background on the origins of Common Core (CCSS), including CCSS funding; on the lack of teacher and professor involvement in CCSS development; on the limited input of standards experts in developing CCSS; on the federal government’s role; on CCSS curriculum, and on […]
This Year, Boston is the Epicenter for Public School Destruction
Too bad. You missed it. No, not my birthday. You still have time to prepare for that. (Hint: it’s the 9th day after the New Year starts.) What you missed was the Annual National Summit on Education Reform, held by Jeb Bush and his anti-public-school reform group, Foundation for Excellence in Education (up is down, […]
The DC IMPACT Study Results: Already Obsolete
In October 2013, researchers Thomas Dee of Stanford University and James Wyckoff of the University of Virginia published (or somehow made public) a working paper on limited aspects of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) teacher evaluation system, IMPACT, which was introduced in 2009– during the time that Michelle Rhee was chancellor of DC schools. The beginning of the paper includes […]
All Week 10-19-13 @ THE CHALK FACE
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: All Week @ THE CHALK FACE Who Should Listen to Melinda Gates about Education?I have asked repeatedly a key question about Bill Gates and his hobby of education reform: If Bill Gates had no money, who would listen to him about education reform? No one–the same as who should listen to him now. Now we have an EdWeak interview with Melinda Gates, which forces an