Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Let Teachers Teach!...Moses, Ayers, Ravitch, Cunningham...

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Let Teachers Teach!...Moses, Ayers, Ravitch, Cunningham...:

Let Teachers Teach!...Moses, Ayers, Ravitch, Cunningham...

At yesterday's Let Us Teach rally in Pilsen protesting CPS threats to punish teachers who support parents and boycott useless standardized testing (h/t Michael Harrington)

Moses... Good news from DePaul College of Ed Dean Paul Zionts. Civil Rights leader and Algebra Project founder Bob Moses will be this year's commencement speaker.

THANKS to Bill Ayers for being an inspiring guest speaker in last night's final class of the quarter. Congratulations are also in order for Bill who has been voted to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming AERA convention in Philly on April 4 at 6 pm. Bill says he's worried that such awards mean you're at the end of the line. But I think his best is yet to come.

Last week's NPE Conference in Austin ended withDiane Ravitch's call for congressional hearings on the misuse and abuse of standardized tests used for high-stakes purposes. The Washington Post's