Teachers of Conscience and the Common Core Scylla and Charybdis
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 22, 2013 In our popular discourse, we are prone to say we are caught between a rock and a hard place, a veiled allusion to Homer’s Scylla and Charybdis. For K-12 public school teachers […]
I Don’t Need Standards To Teach, I Need Students
Photograph By James April 3, 2013 | The JR Experiment Original Author| Re-Publish at The Becoming Radical. December 22, 2013 Just days ago, I completed my twenty-eighth year as a teacher [1]—eighteen as a high school teacher of English followed by ten years as a professor of […]
Exposing The Education “Reformers’” Big Lie
Michelle Rhee, Elizabeth Warren (Credit: AP/Jeff Chiu/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst) By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Salon. December 20, 2013 Earlier this month, progressives in the Democratic Party objected vehemently, and rightfully so, to an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal from a Beltway belief tank called Third […]