The Ultimate Washington Kopp-Out: "Highly-Qualified" Teacher = Corporate Missionary with 15 Hours Experience
Wendy Kopp and her gang of creepy recruiters for TFA have established themselves as the main missionary source for expanding control of segregated urban schools to benefit the international corporate socialist movement of Capitalists Without Borders. With the blessing of the Obama Administration, Tom Harkin was able to slip a provision through last week that entirely nullifies the concept of &quo
The Facts about Diane Ravitch's So-called "Rain of Errors"
I rode the Reign of Error review horse as far as I intended. But, Mike Petrilli issued his “Rain of Error,” lambasting Diane Ravitch in the National Review Online. He may be the first reformer to challenge Ravitch’s evidence and logic, as opposed to complaining about her use of the words “privatize” and “corporate reform.” Petrilli supplemented the standard, conservative soundbites with some links
The cost of the CC$$
Sent to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 20Poorer districts will be hit the hardest, but every district in the country will suffer financially from the common core standards. Not mentioned in "Poorer schools districts feel at a loss over new common core standards," (October 20) is the fact that the common core will require an astonishing amount of testing and the testing must be done
10-20-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Comrpehensible instruction AND peer-interactionRe: "An English-plan outcry," October 20: Sent to the LA Times, Oct 20Both sides are right in the LAUSD debate over English development: Decades of research tells us that we acquire language when we understand what we hear and read. Our goal is thus to provide both comprehensible instruction and peer interaction.A solution is