Arne and the summer slide
Posted on: http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2014/06/05/the-impact-of-the-summer-slide/ Arne Duncan has suggested that year-round school is the solution to the summer slide. Thanks to the common core, year-round school will make things worse. Research tells us that those living in poverty have the least access to books. Students living in poverty also show the most summer loss, and those who re
Shelby County to Launch Classroom Camera Project to Collect and Share Video of Kindergarten Students
The Gates Foundation reporter of record, Jane Roberts, has a celebratory piece on how video capture will be used to evaluate kindergarten teachers in 26 Shelby County Schools. Will they call this ill-advised excuse for more surveillance, "Cameras for Kindergartners?"The State Department of Education should have learned by now that parents and teachers will not allow this kind of third p
Opt Out Guidance for NY Parents and Pearson Field Tests
from We Love Montessori at GW:The GW Elementary School was selected to participate in the NYS Field Test program in Math on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11th. GW Elementary School 3rd graders will be given this test that is to be administered over the course of 40 minutes.A field test is an exam that the company PEARSON (READ this article from WNYC’s blog) and other test developers give to “try out” new questi
More Money For On-Line Testing?
Posted as a comment on "Ed. Groups Urge More Federal Spending for Common-Core Tests," at: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2014/06/more_federal_funds_for_common-.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS3More money to support the biggest boondoggle in the history of education? There is zero research supporting the value of on-line testing, and no plans to do even small scale studies. The am
6-5-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Marshall Tuck's white male friend Dax Shepard 'splains that cultural sterilization isn't "real racism"When I taught in the Los Angeles Unified Schools, I openly opposed the Vietnam War and was critical of the system’s race policies. Fortunately, I was never threatened with dismissal, I belonged to a union. — Professor Rodolfo F. Acuña Students Protesting Marshall Tuck's