Arne Duncan can keep his cynical NCLB waiver — Washington school board member
Last month the U.S. Education Department for the first time rescinded one of the waivers it gave to states that exempts them the most onerous parts of the flawed No Child Left Behind law. It was Washington’s, and as a result, the state will have to comply with all parts of No Child Left Behind — even though […]
‘Today was the first day I was ever ashamed to be a teacher’
Students around the country are taking high-stakes Common Core-aligned standardized tests now and some teachers are expressing unhappiness about having to administer them. Some are refusing to administer them and others are going public with their concerns about the nature of the tests and the emphasis being placed on them by policymakers. Numerous problems have […]
All Week @ The Answer Sheet 5-3-14
The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer SheetTeaching is harder than working in high tech — by a teacher who worked in high techAfter spending 25 years in high-tech — primarily in the wireless and Global Positioning System (GPS) industries – Dave Reid became a high school mathematics teacher and is now in his third year of teaching. It didn’t take him long to realize just how hard teaching really i