Common Core now has critics on the left…
Al Baker in The New York Times… “The Common Core has been applauded by education leaders and promoted by the Obama administration as a way to replace a hodgepodge of state standards with one set of rigorous learning goals. Though 45 states and the District of Columbia have signed on to them since 2010, resistance came quickly, mostly from right-leaning states, where some leaders and political acti
Vergara lawsuit bad for teachers and students
Ann Katzburg in The Contra Costa Times… “Once again, the funding sources for those who are attacking teachers are coming from millionaires and billionaires whose real agenda is to privatize public schools. Public schools serve the public. Excluding the voices of the community and real education stakeholders by using the courts to rewrite education laws and scapegoat teachers is unfair. The exclus
How ‘data walls’ in can humiliate young kids…
Valerie Strauss in The Washington Post… “Today’s version: data walls, where teachers are making lists of all kinds of data — very often student test scores and grade data — and putting them up for display so everybody can revel in the glory of data. The use of ‘data’ to ‘drive instruction’ has become a mantra among many school reforms in recent years, and, as one manifestation, teachers in states
Outdoor learning: Education’s next revolution?
Laura Smith at Salon.com… “If you’ve been out of school for a while, your memory of time spent in classrooms may be bathed in a nostalgic glow. In reality, though, you probably spent a lot of your time looking at the clock, bored out of your mind. Most students are expected to sit in chairs and pay attention for as many as eight hours per day — and that’s even before taking homework into account.
Schools should be teaching kids how to use the internet well…
Abigail Walthausen in The Atlantic… “As schools begin to plan for the benefits of improved connectivity, it is important to consider the responsibility of giving students guidance in becoming productive citizens of the web. New curricula must acknowledge the many-headed hydra that is social media: Its forms range from the mundane distraction to be overcome to the 21st century communication skill t
New England slow to adopt virtual schools…
Paige Sutherland in The Boston Globe… “While hundreds of thousands of students across the country attend virtual public schools, New England has been slow to adopt the high-tech education model as states weigh how to manage the schools and judge their performance.” Read it. What do you think? Read and share comments here… The post New England slow to adopt virtual schools… appeared first on GoPubl