A Florida Teacher Writes a Letter to Parents
I received a letter from a teacher in Florida. He explains how the evaluation system works and why it is absurd: Dear Florida Parents, I...
Month : July 2012
When StudentsFirst Came to Alabama
Earlier this year, there was a big push to get charter legislation passed in Alabama. It failed. One of the pronents for charter legislation was...
Best Way to Eliminate Public Education
Lance Hill of New Orleans responded to blogger Mike Deshotels, who noted the double standard for charter schools and public schools. Public schools must meet...
The Other Kids Growing Up in the Bronx
Mark D. Naison is a professor at Fordham University, where he teaches African-American studies. He is principal investigator of the Bronx African American history project....
Not the Tiger Mom
A new book that explains how demanding parents ruin their children’s lives with unbearable pressure to be the best at everything: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/teach-your-children-well-by-madeline-levine.html?_r=3&smid=fb-share An antidote to...
Creationism in UK Schools, Too: UPDATE
I got a tweet from Britain saying that Michael Gove, the minister of education, has approved three new schools for state funding that teach creationism...
Who Is Irreplaceable?
A new report was released by The New Teacher Project, asserting that our schools were losing the very best teachers. They are the “irreplaceables.” The...
Should Schools Act “in loco parentis?”
A thoughtful comment by a reader about consultants, parents, and the responsibility of schools: Amazing that so many private and parochial schools work well with...
Confessions of a Teaching Fellow
This just arrived in my email box. The writer signed her name: There has been so much debate about educational reform and about Michele Rhee...
Pop Quiz about “The Irreplaceables”
This just in from California educator Robert Skeels: POP QUIZ:What do you call plutocrat funded “research” that isn’t peer reviewed and is conducted by an...