Photograph; Rui Vieira / PA Wire By Owen Davis | Originally Published at Salon. AlterNet. February 4, 2014 8:30 AM The next 12 months will determine whether privatizing trends of the last decade are reversing or merely stalling For people looking to “disrupt” public [...]
Steven Senne/AP Photo Adults are all a flutter. Times are tough; money is tighter. Policymakers and the public alike say, "We must consider our priorities." The nation’s debt. The deficit. And also defense. After all, we must remain strong. "We need to eliminate waste, and cut all [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 29, 2014 Orwellian Educational Change under Obama: Crisis Discourse, Utopian Expectations, and Accountability Failures [pdf] | By Paul L. Thomas, Furman University “It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English [...]
House K-12 Subcommittee Chairwoman Janet Adkins proposed deleting Common Core from Florida Statutes so all the state's education standards will be under one name. File photo by John Iarussi By James Call| Originally Published at The Current. January 31, 2014 It’s not as Orwellian as making a [...]
Amy Conn-Gutierrez/AP Photo By David Cutler | The Atlantic. January 31, 2014 When it comes to teaching history, nothing destroys student interest faster and more completely than a heavy reliance on textbooks. During my first three years of teaching high-school history I would see students’ eyes glaze [...]
Some of the students who are suing the State of California over tenure for teachers walked to a news conference this week outside Superior Court in Los Angeles. Monica Almeida/The New York Times By Jennifer Medina | Originally Published at The New York Times. January 31, 2014 [...]
Photograph; Sen. Ron Rice is sponsoring a bill that would require local school boards to approve the closing of a public school. The bill was prompted by the Newark school reorganization plan. (File Photo) By Peggy McGlone/The Star-Ledger | Email the author | Follow on Twitter | [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 30, 2014 The answer to Grant Lichtman’s Does “Grit” Need Deeper Discussion? appears to be an unequivocal yes—based on the exchange in the blog post comments, the Twitter conversations, and comments at my blogs [...]
When is a teacher not a teacher? In 2014, this question is a just one. Ask yourself if you agree, a qualified teacher is a student in training, or might it be that “A year of taking classes two days a week while assuming full-time, school-based responsibilities [...]
