Latest Story There are 15 people running for Georgia State School Superintendent in the primary election on May 20th. There are 9 Republicans and 6 Democrats jockeying for positions for the November election. In this post I...
Read MoreThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a story in which the writers connected the state of Georgia’s new academic performance score card with poverty. In their article they reported that Georgia students in poor...
Read MoreThe Earth’s climate has changed rapidly over the past fifty years, but when people talk about climate change, they frame it as a future threat. David Popeik, in Scientific American guest blog, says that “climate...
Read MoreAccording to an Education Week article by Sean Cavanagh, Pearson won a the major contract with PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) to develop test items, delivery of paper-and-pencil and...
Read MoreIt might seem extreme to you for me to write about the psychological abuse of children in schools. However, at the end of the post, I hope you will understand why I did. Although the content of this post might seem to...
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Latest Story There are some charter schools that are successful. They tend to exist on their own...
Read MoreThis “twitter debate” from Julian Vasquez Heilig’s blog appeared in my inbox today. I am working on a post on charters and public schools based on an EPI study of the Rocketship Education charters in Milwaukee....
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Education (ED) has established a single variable as the way to reward and punish schools, teachers, students and their parents. The fact that I have used the terms “rewards” and...
Read MoreGeorgia released a lot of data about every school in the state which is summarized by a score attained through the College and Career Ready Performance Index. When the results were released this week by John Barge, State...
Read MoreLatest Story The Georgia Department of Education would have you believe that the College & Career Ready Performance Index is based on scientific research, and is a valid and reliable “index” of school...
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