Really? Do We Really Want Experienced Teachers to Resign
How many more experienced, professional educators will submit their letters of resignation before Washington and the State Legislatures stop catering to the monied interests intent on destroying any meaningful and real education for the next generation? Haven't we already documented extensively through research and blogging how damaging the current corporate education reform movement is to the nat
NYT Talking about the Tests as Weapons of Mass Distraction
The New York Times editors appear to be catching on to the fact that the proliferation and misuse of high stakes testing are not only a huge waste of resources that are actually doing more harm than good, but are also a "distraction" from the very real problems of poverty and inequality. It's about time.To the Editor:Elizabeth Phillips decries the gag order that school principals are u
4-15-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Labeling, Sorting, Segregating: The History of Standardizing Tests in U. S. SchoolsMuch of the first sections of TMoE is dedicated to tracing out how tests came to be used as social sorting tools during our first Gilded Age when grand canyons of inequality between rich and poor had turned American cities into dangerous and unhealthy place. Below is a piece posted last week at Alter