An Opt Out must read.
I have been involved in the Opt Out movement for two years and have read many articles and opinion pieces about boycotting high-stakes standardized testing. This essay from the The New Yorker hits which home on many levels, including the history of testing, is the best piece I have read to date. A must read: […]
Connecticut Teacher Does Not Want Common Core; Weingarten Refuses to Validate the Sentiment
On January 17, 2014, veteran Connecticut teacher Elizabeth Natale wrote in the Courant about her disillusion with the pressures of corporate reform upon her West Hartford, middle-school classroom. In her article, Natale makes it clear that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are part of that disillusion– not only the CCSS assessments– but CCSS itself: When […]
On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff’s Critique of Ravitch
On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff\’s Critique of Ravitch. via On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff’s Critique of Ravitch.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
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@ THE CHALK FACE: Vergara V. California Would Turn Teachers into Second Class CitizensDavid 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