Make no mistake. The conviction of 11 former Atlanta public school teachers for cheating on students standardized tests has little to do with what these people actually did or didn’t do. It is meant as a message for the entire education profession: if you cheat on standardized tests, you will be given the harshest possible…
From educator and education blogger Ken Previti No two fingerprints are alike. Your child is forced to comply with state mandated, high stakes tests that label each one for life in order to profit a few multinational corporate investors and the legislators they finance. Children have more individual differences than their fingerprints do. REFUSE. OPT…
Professor, activist and education blogger Paul Thomas’ piece first appeared on Alternet – http://www.alternet.org/education/publishing-giant-pearson-hauls-billions-education-dollars-do-students-benefit Publishing Giant Pearson Hauls in Billions in Education Dollars: But Do Students Benefit? Leave it to Oscar Wilde to get things right. Writing about late-19th-century British attitudes regarding the poor, the Irish writer and social critic concluded, “Their remedies are part of the…
Jonathan Pelto is an education blogger and founder and manager of the Education Bloggers Network. HIs blog, What, What? can be found at: http://jonathanpelto.com/ School Superintendents! Stop harassing parents for opting their children out of the Common Core SBAC Test With the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Testing beginning in less than a month,…
From education advocate and education blogger Marie Corfield. You can read her blog at: http://mcorfield.blogspot.com/ 12 questions every parent must ask about the #PARCC Parents, print this out and bring it with you next time you meet with representatives from the NJ State Board of Education, the NJ DOE, or any administrator anywhere who tries to…
Educator and education blogger Bill Boyle’s outstanding blog can be found at: educarenow Complicating Poverty In Academic State Champs: Michigan’s Top 25 School Districts, Michigan’s Bridge, an on-line magazine, has come out with an attempt to rank schools in a way that factors in the variable of poverty. Any attempt to rank schools that factors in the concern of…
From Jo Leib’s Poetic Justice Blog which can be found at: http://poeticjusticect.com/ Dear Mr. Cuomo – A Fourth Grader Speaks Out This is going to be my third blog about a Student Hero. My newest hero is Josh – a fourth grader from NYC who has a legitimate beef with Governor Cuomo. Here is the very…
Anne Tenaglia is an educator, author and education blogger. Her blog, entitled, Teachers Lessons Learned can be found at: http://teacherslessonslearned.blogspot.com/ We Didn’t Start the Fire But We Will Fan the Flames For at least a year, teachers around the nation have been talking about the travesty that is high-stakes testing. As required by the US Department…
From educator, education advocate and education blogger Steven Singer Why We Should Have ZERO Standardized Tests in Public Schools Zero. That’s the number. No annual testing. No grade span testing. Not even one measly graduation requirement. Zero. We need exactly ZERO standardized tests in our public schools. I know that sounds extreme. We’ve been testing…
Nancy Bailey was a special education for many years. She left teaching due to the current reforms that are taking over the nation’s classrooms. She is now an education blogger and author, writing about the teaching profession and public schools that are critically important to the future of America and its children. Her book is…
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