With A Brooklyn Accent:
Smash the Linkage between "Liberalism" and School Reform
Keep the pressure on. Make Duncan, Gates, Obama, The Clintons and other so called liberals etc realize their " Education Reforms" have failed miserably and have lost public support.Swarm them every opportunity you get, via email, on twitter, in social media. Bombard them with the evidence of their own failure. And warn them of the political consequences of adhering to failed and unpopul
SEP 24
Why I Won't Discourage My Students from Becoming Teachers.
Every day, I get personal messages from teachers describing how their jobs have been turned nightmarish by tests, assessments, scripting and micromanagement and abusive treatment by administrators. When I posed the question here of whether things are better or worse for teachers than they were 10 years ago, well over 95% said they were much worse; many people said they were planning to leave the p
SEP 23
The "Data Driven" Nightmare Imposed by the Duncan Regime in the US DOE.
When you base policy on "data" and discount "soft" information such as personal testimony, the hallmark of the Duncan Regime in the US Department of Education, you can produce a policy disaster of epic proportions. Why? Because data can be easily manipulated by self-interested parties. No better example of this can be found than in the sub prime mortgage crisis where Moody's an
SEP 21
Educational Malpractice and the Tragedy of America's Teachers
Someday, though I don't exactly know when or how, there will be a full account of the tragedy of America's teachers being forced to commit educational malpractice and deciding between keeping the jobs they need to feed their families and jeopardizing the educational well being and emotional health of the children they teach.Based on the messages and emails I have received daily since the founding