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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

9-3-14 @ The Chalk Face

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Education Post: A Sorry Attempt to Repackage Privatization as “Conversation”
There is a test-score-driven, privatizing war on public schools and on the teaching profession. It is no secret that those chiefly financing the war stand above the chaos they create via their “philanthropy.” In short, they use their billions in order to promote their own ideal of American education privatization. And it seems that they […]




9-2-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Lessons To Be Learned from Elizabeth Green’s Building a Better TeacherElizabeth Green’s Building a Better Teacher contributes explicitly and implicitly to two key school reform debates. Although I’m not fully convinced by her main argument, she makes a great case that we can build a better teacher. The implicit issue is whether a concerted effort to improve teacher quality could