Susan O warms us up on a cold Xmas morn
The miracle of this season is that the Burlington paper actually printed an anti-Common Core Op Ed.http://susanohanian.org/core.php?id=647They promised to print one of mine but never did. I hope this is a sign of an editorial shift.Elsewhere, the Corporate Rule abounds. Take this cartoon, where sugar plums aren't dancing in infants' heads. Instead they are watching their iPad apps from the comfort
Fred Smith, Poet Luareate of the Real Reform Movement
The Night Before… Once More‘Tis the old year that’s closing rosy and gloomy, In with de Blasio and goodbye to Bloomy. With citywide hope cautiously mingled with doubt, We’ll soon know down here whether to smile or to shout. Some fresh air to breathe, perhaps, while out of the North, Tisch and King blow chill winds and continue to froth.
12-24-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: True Confessions: I Used to Give Kids Finish-like BreaksAn American teacher now working in an elementary school in Finland, via the Diane Ravitch blog, writes about the differences. Finnish schools often schedule lessons into hour-long blocks: 45 minutes of instruction, 15 minutes of break. Students rarely have back-to-back lessons without breaks—and at the elementary level, it's