Nora De La Cour: Abolish High-Stakes Testing
Teacher Nora De La Cour writes on her blog that it is time to restore the joy of teaching and learning by abolishing high-stakes testing....
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Jan Resseger: Trust The Teacher to Tell You How Your Child Is Doing, Not Big Data
It is posted at OpEd news https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Big-Data-on-Learning-Loss-in-General_News-Education_Education-Testing_Educational-Crisis_Learning-210216-186.html with 2 comments I made: Here is one:The testing companies (like Pearson) are making a fortune because people...
This Teacher Worked for K12 Inc. and Now Regrets It
I have been writing for many years about the low quality “education” that virtual charter schools provide their students. They make fabulous promises in their...
A Teacher in California: The Madness of Test Obsession
A teacher in California, who must remain anonymous to protect her job, wrote this post. CAASP testing is the Common Core test produced by the...
Bob Shepherd: How “Reform” Ruined Teaching
Bob Shepherd returned to teaching after many years in the education publishing industry, where he developed curriculum and assessments. He writes about what changed while...
Mercedes Schneider to Biden: Please Choose a Real Teacher for Secretary of Education
Mercedes Schneider penned a plea to President-Elect Joe Biden, urging him to appoint a career teacher as his Secretary of Education. She writes: It is...
Pastors for Texas Children on the Election Results
The Network for Public Education is allied with Pastors for Texas Children. PTC has been a courageous leader in the fight for our public schools...
Andy Hargreaves: Imagine a World Without Teachers!
Today is World Teachers Day. It’s a day we honor teachers around the world and thank them for their dedication and hard work, building our...
Victoria Theisen Homer: The Tyranny of Remote Learning
Victoria Theisen Homer writes in Salon about the ways that remote learning distorts and devalues human relationships. She writes: Think of your favorite teacher. Whenever...
Teacher: Let’s All Pull Together
Melanie Sirof is a teacher in the Bellmore-Merrick School District on Long Island innNew York. “Let’s start rowing in the same direction”. “Posting this now,...