Harper’s reports that a bunch of Ron Paul zealots broke out in chants of “USA” when a Puerto Rican delegate took the podium. Does this hint at some nativism, or perhaps racism? Perhaps. This is a major political party that already had similar problems during the primary debates. Paulites seek to abolish most public services. […]
Another parody video from @thechalkface on an #optout of testing, enjoy.
August 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Students Want a Voice in Ed Policy
August 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Students stand up against high stakes testing, corporate education reform. Blogger Nikhil Goyal Common Core and Race to the Top are destructive. Day 33: SOS Convention and Featured in Newsday Posted: August 4, 2012 | Author: Nikhil Goyal | Filed under: Posts |2 Comments » Today, I had a fabulous time at the Save Our Schools […]
#Edreform #madlib, share, and submit here for fun
August 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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#Progressive #education #podcast updated on #itunes
December 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I think all the #edpolicy #wonks are overpaid
November 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Our ambivalence towards #education
October 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Days four, five and week
July 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It seems like my pace of writing waned a bit over the last few days, but as an education professor returning to the classroom, I’ve had some really important revelations (I know, in only a week, right?). I expect these to continue. Now, these are mainly opinions based on my painfully constant reflective style. That […]
NCTQ report
June 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Not that I expected much out of the meeting, but I recall early in the fall sitting down with some folks at the National Council on Teacher Quality. I wanted to see if any of these organizations needed some assistance or input from university faculty in teacher education. I was surprised to hear that people […]
@dianeravitch makes suggestions on education for #obama #sotu, could we bag the competition?
Here they are, via Bill Moyers. She makes two main suggestions: First, we must end the pressure on teachers to teach to the test… Second, we must strengthen and improve our public schools. I support both of these, but I just really don’t agree with the fundamental premise here. I realize that Moyers was asking various […]