Living in Dialogue: The Problem Isn’t Just Common Core, but the Entire Reform Agenda
Living in Dialogue: The Problem Isn’t Just Common Core, but the Entire Reform Agenda. via Living in Dialogue: The Problem Isn’t Just Common Core, but the Entire Reform Agenda.
Listening to a Teacher from a “No Excuses” Charter School
Listening to a Teacher from a “No Excuses” Charter School. via Listening to a Teacher from a “No Excuses” Charter School.
Maxine Greene and the “Frozen Sea Inside of Us”
Maxine Greene and the “Frozen Sea Inside of Us”. via Maxine Greene and the “Frozen Sea Inside of Us”.
YESTERDAY
Why Would WashPost Wait Three Months to Release a Gates Interview?
On Saturday, June 7, 2014, Lyndsey Layton of the Washington Post published this article based on a 28-minute interview she had with billionaire Common Core State Standards (CCSS) funder, Bill Gates. In the interview, Gates spills quite a bit of “insider information,” not the least of which is that in the summer of 2008, then-Council of Chief State […]
Defenders of the Status Quo
It never fails, at least in my state of New Mexico. Whenever one of us “little people” dares to speak up against the inept, dizzying, and out of control nonsense that continues to come from the “reformers” in our state government and education department, we are accused of “defending the status quo.” In other words, […]
6-8-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: The well-meaning liberals of the world aren’t going to like the front page of the Washington PostHow Bill Gates bought us the Common Core. Thank you, and it wasn’t even my birthday. As a matter of fact, our right-wing brothers and sisters might not like this either since they believe this is a massive communist conspiracy. I’m also doubting, however, that many teachers know about
