Lupita’s Oscar used as marketing tool for IB school program
How’s this for innovative marketing? The International Baccalaureate® is a non-profit educational foundation that offers several intellectually challenging programs for students from the ages of 3 to 19 that are used in schools around the world. In the United States, there are some 1,495 schools that offer one or more of the IB programs, and there […]
They still don’t get it: Obama’s new Race to the Top contest for ‘equity’
They still don’t get it. The Obama administration still apparently thinks — despite evidence to the contrary — that it can achieve “educational equity” by holding a contest with winners and losers. When the $4.35 billion Race to the Top was first announced in 2009 as the administration’s chief education initiative, it was promoted as […]
3-6-14 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: Grieving mom takes on state education commissioner over testing disabled studentsI recently wrote about a bizarre open letter to teachers that Education Commissioner Pam Stewart released that accused people who want a change in standardized testing requirements for severely disabled students of launching a political attack on the department. Stewart’s missive followed testimony b