When Schools Close
“The Arts & Technology Academy Public Charter School (ATA) is a Pre-K3 through 5th grade elementary school {Washington, D.C.} that focuses on performing, visual, and media arts instruction, which is infused with an extraordinary use and application of modern technology. Charter schools are independently run, publicly financed, and non-selective of its students.” Although ATA is a public charte
@johnkuhntx guest post: The Wizards of Ed.
By John Kuhn There is a conundrum facing American K-12 education. It is the same conundrum that has always faced American K-12 education. How do we educate “those” kids? “Those” refers to the kids who are dealing with any (or all) of a host of disadvantages. They are from the “wrong” side of the tracks. […]
2014 Resolution: Educate the Whole Child to Curtail School Shootings
The professional education community, as a whole, must do a better job in addressing school violence, i.e. school shootings, in 2014 and beyond. Unfortunately, since the devastating event in Sandy Hook, we’ve witnessed twenty-seven school-based shootings. We MUST do a better job in acknowledging the problem, and recalibrating our focus beyond simple test scores. We […]
Anatomy of Charter School Advocacy
Anatomy of Charter School Advocacy. via Anatomy of Charter School Advocacy.
Spellings Doubles-Down on “Incredibly Complicated” High-Stakes Testing
While political and popular debates teeter on the brink somewhere between surreal and catastrophic—consider the mess that is Sarah Palin homophobic-splaining the Phil Robertson controversy—the media access afforded Margaret Spellings may be reaching a level that rises about worse-of status for just a single year. I have offered the worst Op-Ed of 2013 and Bruce […]
12-26-13 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: The Fordham Strong Arm of Letter Grades for State StandardsIn my previous post, The Importance of Common Core for Nationally-pervasive Ed Reform, I cite the 2009 Broad Foundation report in which a number of major reformer “participants” told America of the reforms it might expect to be in place in 2012– one of which is the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Among the list of “pa