Ted Terry, State Campaign Director, Georgia AFL-CIO and I have been communicating about the plan being proposed by Governor Deal to take over Georgia’s “failing” schools by implementing a Louisiana style...
Read MoreLatest Story The Governor of Georgia, Nathan Deal, who was just elected to a second term, has proposed that he become the education Czar of Georgia by holding the power to put schools on a list that could be taken over by...
Read MoreThe post that follows is a re-blog from Mercedes Schneider’s blog. It documents yet another step in the corportization of U.S. Education–this one is directed at teacher preparation. Many education deans have signed...
Read MoreI received an email from Anya Kucharev, who I met in 1983 on the first AHP-Soviet-North America Exchange Project trip to the U.S.S.R. Kucharev was known as the “cross-cultural Sherpa” for her work as a guide and...
Read MoreIn 2014, there were 100 new posts added to the Art of Teaching Science blog, as shown in the graphic below. I’ve made links to the top five posts for 2014. As you can see, our examination of the how the Gates Foundation...
Read MoreIn an earlier post, I wrote about native science as providing a new paradigm for learning science. The paradigm that I wrote about was based on the work of Gregory Cajete’s Native Science: Natural Laws of...
Read MoreThe conservative world-view is at the root of educational reform, not only in the United States, but in most countries around the world. This world-view has set in motion the reform of education based on a common set of...
Read MoreProfessor Julian Vasquez Heilig, author of the blog, Cloaking Inequity, provides an important look into the nature of Teach for America, and why it is not the way teachers for our schools should be prepared, or hired. He...
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EcoJustice, Citizen Science and Youth Activism (Library Copy) is the title of a new book edited...
Read MoreIs the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Smart or Just Dumb? That’s the question we’ll try to address in this blog post. The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) released scale scores for...
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