Why do Common Core supporters get to make unsubstantiated statements? Why? Look at the latest piece in Huffington Post by Tom Vander Ark. Below are a collection of statements made by Mr. Vander Ark. It’s exciting to see 45 states voluntarily adopting common college and career ready expectations for students — it makes the U.S. […]
I hate it when I do this. I hate when I write about Queen Rhee. She get’s more time than any reform charlatan deserves but she opened her mouth (for how much $) at the Center for Leadership Development and Research at Stanford’s graduate business school and then decided to write about her profound insights into […]
Someone has to say it! Pennsylvania business and military leaders lack 8th grade writing skills and need a serious academic intervention before they make one more stupid suggestion about teaching, learning, child development, and public schools. As reported today in The Triadvocate, Mission Readiness (a supposed “nonpartisan” group) released: All Children Prepared for Success: Common […]
From the Notebook: Ronald Tomalis will step down as Pennysylvania’s education secretary at the end of the month, Gov. Corbett announced today in a statement. He is to be replaced by Cumberland Valley schools chief William Harner. Tomalis, who served as the state’s top education official for two years, will become a special adviser to […]
By now the poverty does or doesn’t matter dichotomy is really starting to get old. Anyone that truly cares about helping children from low socio-economic environments succeed in school knows that all children(even poor ones) can learn. It’s absolutely ridiculous when education reformers insist that those of us “resisting” are claiming that “poor kids can’t […]
Here is the perfect example of HuffPost cheerleading for “so-called” corporate reform. In an article concerning Michelle Rhee and the possibility of Student’s First shoddy record, Joy Resmovits said, Which is to say that much criticism of Rhee, the most visible member of the so-called education reform movement, has been based on ideology. In Washington, […]
Does writing for EdWeek and HuffPost really reach “other” audiences? I ask this question with all sincerity. And I recognize the valuable writing provided by the various authors that consistently post pieces in EdWeek and HuffPost that pierce the corporate reform armor. But I wonder if we really reach other audiences or if we just […]
Sometimes you just can’t beat a dead horse enough. I know Shaun already mentioned Michele McNeil and her inability to understand the depth of the Occupy the DOE event. However, Shaun was too nice. In her latest post, Ms. McNeil wastes reader’s time, complicates the issue, and intentionally down plays the power behind the revolt. What appears to […]
@the chalkface has already exposed the bullying tactics used by Douglas County School District to force teacher Brian White to find a job teaching for true educators that have a deep understanding of teaching and learning and a respect for children and families. Brian was an outspoken critic of the reformy crap being heaped on […]
It seems Huffington Post is confused when it comes to defining civil rights and labeling groups that fight for civil rights accordingly. In a story that ran in Huffington Post yesterday, Joy Resmovits opened up with: As droves of states wiggle out from some of the toughest components of the much-maligned federal No Child Left Behind Act, […]
Sorry, but Randi Weingarten’s call for a “moratorium on the consequences of high stakes testing with the Common Core standards” is worthless! We don’t need a moratorium on “consequences” associated with the Common Core. We need the abolition of all high-stakes testing and dissolution of the Common Core. Anything else is a capitulation to the […]
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