PISA Brainwashing: Measure, Rank, Repeat
When Mary Catherine Bradshaw, a teacher since 1984 in Nashville, TN, announced her retirement from public schools, Bradshaw pointed her finger at one major reason, standardized testing: [S]he says standardized testing is the reason…. Testing, she said, has taken away from instructional time and taken the joy out of learning. Much has changed, she said, since she took her first job as a teacher at
5-6-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): If This Is Teacher Appreciation, I’m Glad It Is Only a WeekTalk back, speak up, be heard. Bill Ayers, To Teach. This is not the time for the teacher of any language to follow the line of least resistance, to teach without the fullest possible knowledge of the implication