NEPC: Five Myths About Teaching
The National Education Policy Center is a think tank known for its incisive reviews, studies, and reports. In this post, it demolishes five myths about...
Category : Teachers and Teaching
Ken Futernick: Teacher Stories about Life Today
About a decade ago, when policy elites were bashing teachers on a regular basis, Ken Futernick was writing about the challenges that teachers face every...
David C. Berliner: A Hug for Jennifer
David C. Berliner, one of our nation’s most honored researchers of education, shared this essay for readers of the blog. A Hug for Jennifer I met...
Valerie Jablow: D.C. Has Lost a Great Education Leader, Elizabeth Davis
Valerie Jablow is a parent advocate in the District of Columbia. Here she remembers Elizabeth Davis, the president of the Washington Teachers Union, who died...
Joel Westheimer: Three Essential Lessons That COVID Taught Us About Education
Joel Westheimer is a professor of education at the University of Ottawa. He wrote this article for The Ottawa Citizen and shared it with me....
Tim Slekar: A Survey of Teachers
If you are a teacher, you are invited to participate in a survey. Tim Slekar is writing a book about teachers and their working conditions....
Theresa Thayer Snyder: What Shall We Do With the Children After the Pandemic?
I originally posted this commentary in December 2020. It has since been opened by readers more than 600,000 times. It struck a chord with teachers...
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....
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...