Big Education Ape: 11-2-13 Radical Scholarship

Radical Scholarship:

Guest column: S.C. schools have poverty problem | The Greenville News | greenvilleonline.com

Guest column: S.C. schools have poverty problem | The Greenville News | greenvilleonline.com.

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YESTERDAY

Common Core and Text Complexity: “It’s a madhouse! A madhouse!”

Common Core and Text Complexity: “It’s a madhouse! A madhouse!”.

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OCT 31

remnant 37: “‘If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again’”

remnant 37: “‘If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again’”.

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Political Cowardice Is Political Courage

Political Cowardice Is Political Courage.

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OCT 30

For the Record: Should We Trust Advocates of “No Excuses”?

The short answer is, No. When “The Softer Side of ‘No Excuses’” was published at Education Next, I posted a comment* and then emailed one of the authors, Robert (Bob) Maranto, an endowed chair in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. My initial email stated directly that one implication in the article is blatantly untrue and essentially nasty: Like all charter schools,

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This Is the Problem

On Twitter, I posted the following: 2 guaranteed reforms reformers refuse to do: 1) give children books 2) give poor children’s parents money. Both of these are supported by solid research—the need for access to books and choice reading by decades of research in literacy and the second point is powerfully supported by a recent study from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation: The impact of increases in i

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OCT 29

Orwellian Obama or Russell Brand?

Orwellian Obama or Russell Brand? (No Real Contest).

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Political Cowardice Is Political Courage – @ THE CHALK FACE

Political Cowardice Is Political Courage – @ THE CHALK FACE.

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OCT 27

Teacher Quality, Wiggins and Hattie: More Doing the Wrong Things the Right Ways

In a blog titled “To my critics” as a follow up to his critique of Diane Ravitch’s Reign of Errors, Grant Wiggins seeks to clarify his central arguments: My point was merely to ask those who speak only of forces outside of our immediate control as educators to attend to what is not only in our control but can make a big difference…. Teachers and schools make a difference, a significant one. And we

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OCT 26

On Children and Kindness: A Principled Rejection of “No Excuses”

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. —Thomas Jefferson The Furman University spring commencement in 2008 was mostly overshadowed by two events—the speech presented by President George W. Bush and the protest and controversy surrounding that speech in the weeks leading up to and during the speech. A concurrent controversy to Bush’s commencement add

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Guest column: S.C. schools have poverty problem | The Greenville News | greenvilleonline.com

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