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By Chris Thinnes. We seem to have forgotten there could be any other way to hold ourselves accountable. - Steve Seidel ‘WE MIGHT WELL HAVE VIEWED IT AS AN ACT OF WAR’ I remember Sir Ken Robinson recounting, a few years ago, the challenges of his family’s adjustment to American culture when they moved to Los Angeles several years beforehand. He said he had been told by European friends, time and ti
Gates Money Attempts to Shift the Education Conversation to Successes
In 2010, a stark image was broadcast around the nation. It showed a child seated at a school desk surrounded by absolute devastation and ruin. That image was used promote the movie, “Waiting For Superman.” The movie was boosted with a $2 million advertising grant from the Gates Foundation, and was further promoted on Oprah and NBC’s Education Nation – also underwritten by the Gates Foundation. The
Due Process Should Include Peer Assistance and Review
This week Mark Naison took an axe to the Peer Assistance and Review program, citing research done by Brian Crowell, a math teacher in Berkeley, California. Crowell states that his research has shown that teachers who are outspoken, and those who are over 55, are of color, and those who are expensive, are the ones most likely to be referred to PAR. I have a somewhat different perspective on the pro
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A Response to Bill Nye (The Science Guy): Standards? Yes. The Common Core State Standards? No.
By Stephen Krashen Bill Nye (“The Science Guy”) is enthusiastic about the Common Core because he feels that there are some basic principles that students simply need to know: Everybody needs to learn “a little bit of physics, chemistry, mathematics and you got to learn some evolution. You’ve got to learn some biology … Everybody’s got to learn the alphabet. Everybody’s got to learn to read. The U.
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Teach Your Teachers Well
Teach your teachers well? Some think anyone can teach in the public schools. Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at Howard University, Denisha Jones disagrees. Learn more about Denisha here. The post Teach Your Teachers Well appeared first on Living in Dialogue.
Wayne Au Tangles with the Gates-Funded Education Lab Journalism Project
By Anthony Cody. In August, Louisiana teacher and investigative reporter Mercedes Schneider wrote about the dangers of having education journalism directly funded by the Gates Foundation. This morning, she followed up that post with another, pointing out that while it sounds benign to “focus on success,” this is itself a huge bias. What would stories have looked like in the 1960s if reporters cove