You may remember those heady days. It was called the Republican Convention. A large group of Republicans gathered together to celebrate education and the role it played in earlier generations. There were tales of hard-work and high expectations among the exhortations. Those were the days; we learned [...]
Civil Rights Groups Dispute Memo To State Board On New Funding Formula By John Fensterwald Originally Published at EdSource. September 3, 2013 In a sign of a skirmish to come, leaders of 30 civil rights and [...]
Why do they care about schools? It’s all about money By Maisie Mcadoo New York Teacher Issue June 3, 2010 Education Reform Now, which spearheaded a $2 million media campaign to lift the charter school cap without reforms, paid for this mailer attacking the UFT. Who paid [...]
Is Teacher enough to turn the tide to take misery and twirl it into happiness? Might the affect of a good teacher-student relationship in a classroom be enough to change a life? Could it be that an Educator is but one influence amongst many? And does each [...]
By Carlo Rotella | Originally Published at The New York Times. September 12, 2013 Sally Hurd Smith, a veteran teacher, held up her brand-new tablet computer and shook it as she said, “I don’t want this thing to take over my classroom.” It was late June, a [...]
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 [...]
Emotional Intelligence is EmpathyEducates' call. In our own lives, we have come to appreciate the lessons, which today would be characterized as Social-Emotional Learning. Having always felt as though we were the hare in the illustrious fable The Tortoise and the Hare we see the splendor of [...]
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 [...]
Why might it be that school closures continue? How could adults sit by and watch what occurs to their progeny? Why is there not a greater active expression of concern? The answers are many and also easy. Humans attend to their own wants and needs first and [...]
