The Social-Emotional Consequences of the Authoritarian Standards & High-Stakes Testing Sham
Note: This is the second in a series of articles on the consequences of the authoritarian...
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The Power, Privilege, and Injustice of Authoritarian Standards & High-Stakes Testing Sham
Note: This is the first in a series of articles on the consequences of the authoritarian standards & high-stakes testing sham. The authoritarian standards and high-stakes testing movement conjure up for me the use of power...
Read MoreThe Power, Privilege, and Injustice of Authoritarian Standards & High-Stakes Testing Sham
Note: This is the first in a series of articles on the consequences of the authoritarian standards & high-stakes testing sham. The authoritarian standards and high-stakes testing movement conjure up for me the use of power...
Read MoreAustralia Discovers New Element: Governmentium (GV)
I received word from Roger Cross, a friend and colleague in science education in Australia that the heaviest element yet known to science, has been discovered. The new element is Governmentium (Gv). It has one neutron, 25...
Read MoreWhy a Single Set of Science Standards in a Democracy?
Why are we supporting the notion of a single set of science standards which has been done in mathematics and language reading/language art? We live in a democracy. One the of founding principles of education is that elected...
Read MorePeddling Panic: Biased Survey Promotes National Science Standards
Achieve, Inc. stands to make a lot of money for its work creating new science standards. It might not surprise us, therefore, that a survey they commissioned favors the adoption of these standards. But we need to look at these...
Read MoreSpinning the Numbers on Turnarounds: School Improvement Grant Controversy Brews
Guest Post by Anthony Cody Anthony Cody spent 24 years working in Oakland schools, 18 of them as a science teacher at a high needs middle school. He is National Board certified, and now leads workshops with teachers focused on...
Read MoreScoring Teachers: Perversion by Policymakers
Policymakers have perverted teaching, and reduced the evaluation of teachers to a number based on questionable and unreliable data. Not only do researchers at major universities caution policymakers about using Value-Added...
Read MoreCharter Schools: Education's New Elixir?
In her new book, Dr. Lisa Delpit suggests that the original idea of charter school has been corrupted. She explains that originally, charter schools were designed to be “beacons” for educational excellence....
Read MoreCharter Schools: Education’s New Elixir?
In her new book, Dr. Lisa Delpit suggests that the original idea of charter school has been corrupted. She explains that originally, charter schools were designed to be “beacons” for educational excellence....
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