The Art of Removing the Rotten Core
Coming on the heels of the rapacious profiteering and privatizing scheme of NCLB, and designed in the dark by a tiny team of technocrats led by the prissy Platonist, David Coleman, the Common Core was doomed from the start. Designed, without doubt, to be the testing delivery system to guarantee another generation of harder tests and more school meltdowns and subsequent takeovers, the arrogant educ
Malloy is a fraud on campaign finance reform issues
NEWS ALERT: Buried under the news about the massive problems facing Connecticut’s State budget and other developments and issues that have surfaced over the past couple of weeks is one of the most significant news stories of Governor Malloy’s term. The truth is that after having run as a “pro-campaign finance reform” candidate, Dannel “Dan” […] The post Malloy is a fraud on campaign finance refor
Group of New York Teachers refuse to give unfair standardized tests
At great risk to their careers, 26 Teachers and Staff of International High School at Prospect Heights in New York City are refusing to give the NYC ELA Performance Assessment Test. The comes after 3 teachers from the Earth School on the lower east side in Manhattan sent a letter of conscience to the NYC […] The post Group of New York Teachers refuse to give unfair standardized tests appeared fir
4-30-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: Let Teachers TeachTeresa M. Pelham is the co-blogger for the Hartford Courant’s Mommy Minute blog and a well-known children’s book writer. In recent Courant column entitled, Let’s Ditch Those Tests And Let Teachers Teach, Pelham eloquently put into words what many of us are thinking. More Testing, Less Learning is not what prepares our children for the […] The post Let Teachers Teach a