Curriculum [Creation and Use]

Home/Issues/Curriculum [Creation and Use]

Why Are We (Still) Failing Writing Instruction?

By Paul L. Thomas | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 3, 2013, 2013 We have two recent commentaries that detail how schools and teachers fail students in the teaching of writing—one comes from a college student and the other, from a former teacher. While both [...]

Why Are We (Still) Failing Writing Instruction?2016-11-29T17:38:29-05:00

New Orleans Struggles To Provide Adequate Education For Special-Needs Students

Photograph; Kelly Fischer says she visited three New Orleans charter schools, and all told her that they couldn't provide services to her disabled son, Noah. Rush Jagoe for The Wall Street Journal By Kari Harden
 | Originally Published at Louisana Weekly. December 2, 2013 When Kelly Fisher [...]

New Orleans Struggles To Provide Adequate Education For Special-Needs Students2016-11-29T17:38:29-05:00

Closing a Fear Gap So Children Can Achieve

Photograph; Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times Montserrat Garibay, a teacher in Austin, Tex., is focusing on helping families navigate a complex immigration bureaucracy. By Michael Brick | Originally Published at The New York Times. December 1, 2013 AUSTIN, Tex. — The meeting began, as so [...]

Closing a Fear Gap So Children Can Achieve2016-11-29T17:38:29-05:00

Jeff Nichols; Testimony At Education City Council Hearing

Testimony At Education City Council Hearing From CTS Member By Jeff Nichols | Originally Published at Change The stakes. November 27, 2013 Testimony In Support Of City Council Resolution 1394-2012 Jeff Nichols, Change the Stakes November 25, 2013 Thank you Councilman Jackson for this opportunity to [...]

Jeff Nichols; Testimony At Education City Council Hearing2016-11-29T17:38:29-05:00

CPS Will Use State-Run Data Program, Not Controversial inBloom Storehouse

By Becky Schlikerman | Originally Published at The Chicago Sun times. Last Modified: Nov 27, 2013 10:09AM Chicago Public Schools has decided against using inBloom, a controversial data storehouse run by a nonprofit, and will work directly with a state-run data program, a spokeswoman said. In Illinois, [...]

CPS Will Use State-Run Data Program, Not Controversial inBloom Storehouse2016-11-29T17:38:29-05:00

Test for the Links Between Education, Marriage and Parenting

We test and test our children in a futile attempt to alter reality. We wish to believe that scores on a battery of examinations will predict the future, or at least offer some insight into a student's progress. Policymakers suggest the tests will forecast a child's potential. [...]

Test for the Links Between Education, Marriage and Parenting2016-11-29T17:38:29-05:00

Orwellian Educational Change Under Obama

Crisis Discourse, Utopian Expectations, and Accountability Failures By Paul L. Thomas | Furman University | Originally Published at Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 4(1) 2011 "It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. . . . [T]he slovenliness of our [...]

Orwellian Educational Change Under Obama2016-11-29T17:38:30-05:00

Common Core Comments Run From ‘Great’ To ‘Commie Brainwashing’

By Leslie Postal| Originally Published at Orlando Sentinel November 17, 2013 Florida's Common Core education standards make for dry reading. But they've created such a fierce political battle that when the state asked for public comments, more than 19,000 of them poured in. On Tuesday, the State [...]

Common Core Comments Run From ‘Great’ To ‘Commie Brainwashing’2013-11-18T19:41:54-05:00

South Carolina Parents Remove Children From School to Protest Common Core

Photograph; Opponents of the Common Core State Standards kept their children out of school Nov. 18 to protest what they say is a federal overreach. Might we blame a bad Common Core State Standards rollout on a website or could it be that the website rollout went [...]

South Carolina Parents Remove Children From School to Protest Common Core2016-11-29T17:38:30-05:00
Go to Top