NEA and AFT Offer Appeasements; Locals Prefer Democratic Response
An article appeared in the Albuquerque Journal recently, titled, Two Teacher Unions Step Up Actions Against PED. The article outlines how the national and state-level unions plan to put pressure on the New Mexico Public Education Department (NM PED) in order to treat teachers more fairly. Read the article here: http://www.abqjournal.com/288936/news/two-teacher-unions-step-up-action-against-ped.ht
Fill In Those bubbles Kindergarteners-this is your future.
Not quite as awful as the learn how to bubble for the sake of test taking skill as Shaun Johnson's post today, but what the hell are we doing here people?From New York parent Heather: Kindergartners learning to be "college and career" ready by practicing Those filling in bubbles? Common Core aligned too! From [...]
Teacher Quality, Wiggins and Hattie: More Doing the Wrong Things the Right Ways
Teacher Quality, Wiggins and Hattie: More Doing the Wrong Things the Right Ways. via Teacher Quality, Wiggins and Hattie: More Doing the Wrong Things the Right Ways.
Kindergarten teachers have really abandoned their professional ethics in favor of…?
Can anyone explain this to me, as captured by a friend in Texas?
Can leaders be activists?
I have been very critical of just about every implementation facet of the common core standards and I have always but forth the reasons for my criticism. The standards were not developed with input from experts. Teachers, childhood development specialists and parents were supposedly “consulted” but the actual work was done by a secret panel—and […]
All Week 10-26-13 @ THE CHALK FACE
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: All Week @ THE CHALK FACE 2013 Louisiana School Letter Grades: Recovery School District Gains NothingOn October 23, 2013, John White released the long-awaited, capriciously calculated 2013 Louisiana school performance scores (SPS) and letter grades. In this “official” LDOE graphic, he attempts to sell the public on the “new,” “simpler” SPS/ letter grade formu