My Open Letter to Dennis Van Roekel
Mr. Van Roekel: I haven’t formally thanked you for allowing me to share the stage with you in December of last year at the NCUEA conference in Austin. It was an enlightening experience for me and it was a pleasure to meet you. I remember being pleasantly surprised by your speech! Your insistence that the […]
Wisconsin #commoncore Senate Bill 619: A conundrum?
Here it is as plain and simple as I can make it. Wisconsin Republicans in the state Senate drafted a bill that essentially turns over the writing of education standards to politicians and kills the common core. Someone has to say it: “Any bill that would allow politicians the ability to directly and/or indirectly write learning […]
South Carolina and Common Core: A Next Step?
South Carolina and Common Core: A Next Step?. via South Carolina and Common Core: A Next Step?.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
2-27-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: More History Ignored by Common Core AdvocatesA grandiose vision of school reform took off during the 1990s as the digital revolution seemed to be freeing society and the economy from the constraints of the industrial era. It was a time that inspired book titles such as Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History. It was even suggested that computer technology, through “just […]7 by Joh