Deja Vu In 1983, a panel of experts wrote the report: A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. In the report, the panel wrote: Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry,...
Read MoreTeacher bashing has become a contact sport that is played out by many U.S. Governors. The rules of the game are staked against teachers by using measures that have not been substantiated scientifically. For many governors, and...
Read MoreThe Georgia Senate is very close passing a bill HR 1162, which will enable the state to authorize charter schools. In 2011 the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that it was unconstitutional for the Georgia Charter School...
Read MoreThe Charter school movement has been in the news recently in Georgia. The Georgia Legislature is trying to get around the present Charter School law which says that applications for establishing a charter school must be...
Read MoreGuest Post by Anthony Cody This post was originally published on Anthony Cody’s blog at Living in Dialog, on March 10. Anthony Cody spent 24 years working in Oakland schools, 18 of them as a science teacher at a high needs...
Read MoreThe No Child Left Behind Act is linked to data that shows schools in California are teaching less science because teachers are pressured to prepare students for the required math and English high-stakes tests. Valerie Strauss...
Read MoreThe Georgia Senate approved Senate Bill 420 which is an amendment to part of the Official Code Georgia. The bill relates to the accountability assessment for K-12 education. The passage of the bill further degrades education...
Read MoreThere is an unrivaled assault on the teaching profession. It emerged and has sustained itself when education policy makers convinced themselves that public education should be based on standards driven accountability model,...
Read MoreHelping students construct their own ideas is considered by some educators a subversive idea that runs counter to the present impetus of the Race to the Top and NCLB Waivers. These Federal programs, especially NCLB, have created...
Read MoreIn the last post we used science education research to show how accountability standards in science education today pose barriers to meaningful learning in science. Today, we extend this theme, and show that the theory of...
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