School board member vows to keep fighting for the late Ethan Rediske
Rick Roach, a member of the Orange County School Board in Florida, sent the following e-mail about the death on Friday of 11-year-old Ethan Rediske, who became known in Florida after his mother, Andrea, fought a state requirement that her blind son, who had brain damage as well as cerebral palsy, take standardized tests. I […]
How to mine Sochi Olympics for teaching and learning
View Photo Gallery —The start of Olympic competition kicked off with snowboarding, freestyle skiing and figure skating. This is an updated version of a piece that Jeffrey S. Hacker, a teacher at Beall Elementary School in Rockville, wrote years ago for The Washington Post about the possibilities that the Olympic Games provide for teaching. By […]
Wife of teacher to Obama: ‘please stop this runaway reform now’
Here’s an open letter that the wife of a public school teacher in Georgia wrote to President Obama about the reality in her husband’s school. She sent a more detailed version of this letter to the president. The author is Dana Bultman, an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Georgia. Dear President and […]
@ The Answer Sheet 2-6-14 - A really scary headline about kindergarteners
The Answer Sheet: A really scary headline about kindergartenersRob Saxton is Oregon’s deputy superintendent of public instruction. Jada Rupley is the early learning system director within the state Department of Education. Together they wrote an op-ed in The Oregonian that was published online with this headline: Kindergarten test results a ‘sobering snapshot’ What could possibly be sobering abou