The Best Reason Yet to Boycott Amazon
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David Coleman and Jeb Bush Don't "Give a Shit" about Your Child's Feelings, Thoughts, or Self-Esteem
In 2011, the über-prissy Architekt of the Common Core Standards, David Coleman, had this to say at a State gathering in New York, where Coleman explained why teenagers' written reactions to Cather in the Rye were about to be discontinued in favor of explicating Samsung installation manuals (my bolds):Do people know the two most popular forms of writing in the American high school today? Texting,
A Breath of Fresh Air from Denver
Denver will be hosting this year's United Opt Out event in a few weeks. This event was held on the front steps of the Department of Education building in Washington, DC for the past two years.I am an employed social studies and history teacher now for 6th grade and a lot has changed in two years. Finding a public school that is not suffering under the current policies is extremely difficult. Howev
Doug Martin on Justin Oakley's Show Tonight and Amazon
I will be joining Justin Oakley on his Just Let Me Teach radio show on Wednesday, March 26 from around 9:15 to 10:00 pm. I will be discussing my book, Hoosier School Heist, which is now available at Amazon and details the Walton Family, Jeb Bush, New York hedge fund managers, the DeVos family of Amway fame, plagiarists, and Republican campaign donors who run charter schools in Indiana, just to na
3-25-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Grindstones Make GritWith Seligman disciple, Angela Duckworth, teaming up with KIPP co-father, Dave Levin, the industrial child psychologists have an able researcher and an experimental site to figure out how to roughen up the grindstone to reduce more urban children to piles of grit. At this point, we don't know what the how much grit will be ground out by subjecting children to y