By Paul L. Thomas | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical November 17, 2013 Social media and even mainstream media appear poised to leap on Secretary Arne Duncan with both feet due to his swipe at white suburban moms. The nearly universal sweeping outrage—some with a level [...]
Photograph; Smithtown teachers rally with others at Sen. Flanagan's office Friday. Photo by Elana Glowatz Oppose Common Core Curriculum, Standardized Tests By Elana Glowatz | Originally Published at Times Beacon Record. November 4, 2013 Hundreds of people flooded the sidewalk in front of state Sen. John [...]
By Alan A. Aja, | Originally Published at Huffington Post. October 30, 2013 5:06 PM Last week I asked my class of 30 plus first-year students a simple question in review for an upcoming mid-term: In what year did Mexican and U.S. authorities sign the Treaty of [...]
There are many trends in education that come and go. What remains the same are students and how they learn. Clothing styles change and many interpret that as a change in children, but consider this, a child dressed in rags is no different than the one donned [...]
Photograph: Kindergarten gets as tough with multiple choice tests Kindergarteners are having a tough time with standardized math tests. Originally Published at New York Daily News. October 10, 2013 Goodbye Play-Doh, hello No. 2 pencils. Because of a tough new curriculum and teacher evaluations, 4- and 5-year-olds [...]
By Leslie Postal and Kathleen Haughney | Originally Published at Orlando Sentinel 9:43 p.m. EDT, September 23, 2013 TALLAHASSEE — Florida retreated Monday from a new multi-state testing system that was to replace FCAT, a move that could appease conservatives opposed to Common Core academic standards on [...]
Photograph; Mel Yates By Pedro Noguera | | Originally Published at The Nation. September 11, 2013 The latest “school reform” silver bullet fails to address how children learn. Ever since the release of A Nation at Risk, in 1983, the government report issued by Ronald Reagan’s [...]
Photograph: Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, at the Green Dot New York Charter School in the Bronx. By Motoko Rich Originally Published atThe New York Times. August 15, 2013 The Common Core, a set of standards for kindergarten through high school that has [...]
Common Core State Standards. Love it or loathe it, the implementation allows us to see the prospect of unintended consequences in a new light. Look at policies prompted by the program. Haste and waste are fully exposed in centuries of education policy. We leap and do not [...]
