A Chicago Teacher Questions Martin Koldyke’s “Golden Apples” Program
A few days ago, a Chicago teacher contacted me to make me aware of a program in Chicago, the “Golden Apple” program, one that supposedly rewards good teachers yet seems more like a front to supply a temporary teaching staff in schools that businessman Martin Koldyke has taken control of in the all-too-common corporate reform […]
Science and Social Studies are Disappearing
Report cards from a district outside of Rochester, New York, have made it painfully clear what school reformers feel about science and social studies. Read the comments for Term 3 in this 5th grade report card. The last thing corporate giants need is kids knowing history or thinking like scientists. Let’s just integrate it all […]
The Damage Done by the “Texas Meteor”
The 2013 NBER paper, “School Accountability, Postsecondary and Attainment,” by Jennifer Jennings, David Deming, Sarah Cohodes, and Christopher Jencks, was initially welcomed as evidence in support of test-driven accountability. Jennings et. al concluded that the Texas test-driven accountability of the 1990s increased student performance of math students, especially those who were at risk of failur
6-3-14 @ The Chalk Face
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