I have this recurring nightmare – one that, I fear, is about to become reality for most of America’s school children. In my dream, I’m back in elementary school. It’s testing day and I’m struggling to remember my locker combination and get to class on time. My [...]
By Peter DeWitt | Originally Published at Education Week. August 13, 2013 6:41 AM Too many people talk about the CCSS as if they will be the silver bullet to end our poverty issues. We are surrounded by the illusion of quick fixes. We can deny [...]
While testing was never intended to leave students without hope, that has been the result. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) By Suzi Parker | Originally Published at TakePart. July 11, 2013 An alarming rate of students who fail state-mandated tests are ending up in jail. Critics have long [...]
By Donald H. Smith, Ph.D. and Sam Anderson, Ph.D | Originally Published at Black Star News. June 18, 2013 Carter G. Woodson penned a timeless classic on mis-education [On Education] Common Core State Standards created by the Council of State School Officers and the National Governors [...]
By George Joseph | Originally Published at In These Times. June 13, 2013 Photograph; Columbia University's Teachers College held two Masters convocations on May 21. During the ceremonies students held up signs that read "I am not a number" and "not a test score." Photo by George [...]
RNC To Discuss Growing Opposition To Controversial Common Core Curriculum Originally Published at The Illinois Review April 11, 2013 Los Angeles - The concerns about the federal Common Core curriculum and the national standards it would impose on local schools reached the level of the Republican National [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at Alternet . March 18, 2013 | Photograph Credit: Shutterstock.com/YanLev U.S. public education has a long relationship with pursuing high standards for students, teachers, and schools, reaching back to the Committee of Ten in the 1890s proposing a uniform [...]
At the age of two your truculent behavior was likely described as terrible. By the time you were twelve or twenty-one it was thought just a phase. Surely, your combative nature would change. Conformity is ingrained. We teach it to our children. And children will follow a [...]
