An Education Policy That Presumes Family Failure and Collapse
As teachers and parents look, in amazement, at policies emanating from the US Department of Education that mandate the meticulous scripting of "student learning" beginning as early as age 3, and which require testing of "student outcomes" to evaluate their classroom performance, it is important to highlight the underlying logic behind such a program.It is not that proponents of
10-1-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: Why You Can't Reason With School Reformers- You Have to Bring the Machine to a Halt
With A Brooklyn Accent: Why You Can't Reason With School Reformers- You Have to Bring the Machine to a HaltYesterday, during some fierce twitter debates I was having with Charter School Advocates one of them replied " the majority of American teachers graduated in the bottom 1/3 of their college class." To them, this provided the justification for erasing teacher voices from education de