Sneak peek of @unitedoptout version of Dvorak, only available if you register for their spring event in Denver.
This will be a playable deck of collectible trading cards, people, of all those involved (Defenders) and those against (Deformers). I have not seen anything else like it, anywhere, so get your hands on this one-of-a-kind item. That is, only if you register, and pick them up in person in Denver, although we may make […]
Goodness gracious, the PARCC samples are ready! Thanks @PARCCplace
Is there no irony sensed that PARCC Place is a play on words of the most expensive place on the Monopoly board? Ok, let’s shoot on over to PARCC Place, then, and see what they’re about. Let’s practice! Damn it!! All right, all right. I’ll play along. Even though all the cool kids use Chrome. […]
With all due respect @jeffbcdm, this doesn’t sound like a good idea at all
There are a lot of folks out there nibbling at the edges of this Common Core ordeal. We get it, it’s a “flashpoint,” or what have you. It’s tough to debate because so many emotions enter the conversation; that is, if you care about this sort of thing. I think a poll of the larger […]
Thomas Friedman And The In Crowd
Sometimes really smart people get really dumb. It isn’t on purpose. They just start to believe too much of what they have to say, or write. When they also love to be in the limelight because of what they write, the light that shines on them also blinds them. I believe that is the case […]
Vergara V. California Would Turn Teachers into Second Class Citizens
David Cohen’s “Education Policy vs Litigation” at InterACT provides a balanced analysis of Vergara vs California, a corporate reform effort to kill five California laws because they supposedly violate the rights of poor children of color. Students Matter, a nonprofit founded by entrepreneur David Welch, sponsors Vergara. It asks the Court to strike down teachers’ […]
1-21-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Pulling a Greene: Why Advocacy and Market Forces Fail Education Reform [Redux]Pulling a Greene: Why Advocacy and Market Forces Fail Education Reform [Redux]. via Pulling a Greene: Why Advocacy and Market Forces Fail Education Reform [Redux].1 by plthomasedd / 9min ALEC and Its (Reluctantly) Newly-created Jeffersonian ProjectThe American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has bee