(Image via Merriam-Webster Inc.) We each have a personal dictionary that we carry around with us, in our heads. While we may open the pages and share a lexeme and definition with others, these persons tend to be our most trusted friends. Only they know us at [...]
You say you want a revolution or an evolution, well…. Thousands Sign New Education Declaration Calling For New School Policies By Jeff Bryant. Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network Institute for America's Future on June 18, 2013 As a populist wave of discontent with top-down education mandates [...]
By Bob George and Betsy L. Angert | Published at EmpathyEducates. Today, Chicago Public Schools again asserted that there was a way to "improve" community schools, cut budgets, $52 million dollars worth. The decision to eliminate administrative and operational expenses is touted as a means to help [...]
By Rebecca Strauss | Originally Published at The New York Times June 16, 2013 Averages can be misleading. The familiar, one-dimensional story told about American education is that it was once the best system in the world but that now it’s headed down the drain, with piles [...]
New York Times Photograph: Amanda Lindsey, a preschool teacher at the Academy of St. Benedict the African in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, talked with Charlotte Pettigrew, 5, during breakfast there in May. By Motoko Rich |Originally published at The New York Times. June 13, 2013 CHICAGO [...]
To Download the Bill; Strengthening America's School Act United States Government. June 4, 2013 | Source; ACSD; Capitol Connection. Originally Published on June 11, 2013 Standards and Assessment Accountability and School Improvement Educator Support and Evaluation Whole Child Education Harkin Introduces NCLB Overhaul Senate Education Committee [...]
© copyright 2013 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Governor Chris Christie, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, Pennsylvania State Commission Chairman, Pedro Ramos, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and President Obama, by now you have likely seen or heard the news. Nine-year old Asean [...]
Dearest Melissa Harris-Perry ... It's me, Betsy, one of your many Twitter followers, a viewer of your program, and a person who was honored to hear you speak at the last Rebuild The Dream Convention. As an Educator, I am grateful for your sharing what is so [...]
In the last quarter century or more student evaluations have been used as a form of punishment. Instead of the traditional assessments that invite reflection and a path towards progress, mostly, newer high-stakes examinations determine a student's fate. Frequently, a young person struggling to learn a newer [...]
