Methinks KIPP Advocates Protest Too Much
As the wheels appear to be coming off the education reform bus, many reformers are scrambling to change the narratives, shift the arguments, and even retool their foundational commitments. One such retooling may be Knowledge Is Power Program charters, if this piece at Education Next authored by Alexandra Boyd, Robert Maranto and Caleb Rose is any indication: “The Softer Side […]
The U.S. Formula for Children and the Choices We Refuse to Make
The U.S. Formula for Children and the Choices We Refuse to Make. via The U.S. Formula for Children and the Choices We Refuse to Make.
My Best Year as a Teacher
I began teaching in my first, full-time classroom in 2006, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was right in the thick of various No Child Left Behind changes and shifts, and it was about the time that data became paramount and a new program was being handed down every other week. Or so it seemed. I […]
10-23-13 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: New Refusal Movement Blossoms in New MexicoNew Mexico has one of the masters of Chiefs for Change, Hanna Skandera, in the chief’s seat of their education department. They are under her thumb and trapped under her policies, which she brought with her, straight outta Florida and straight from Jeb. This week, Albuquerque BOE member Kathy Korte organized and held a rally […]4 by Kri