If you haven't read any of Grant Lichtman's blog posts, you might want to check out his recent post in which he describes a metric that he suggests is more meaningful in the lives of our children than how well any of them did on a test this week....
Progressive Education
Inquiry: The Cornerstone of Teaching–Part I
Fifth Article in the series on The Artistry of Teaching Conservative and neoliberal paradigms dominate education, which have reduced teaching to skills, economic growth, job training, and transmission of information. In spite of these authoritarian policies,...
10 Ways to Modify the Druid Hills Charter Cluster in DeKalb County, Georgia
Latest Story The Druid Hills Charter Cluster, Inc., is a corporation that has petitioned to the DeKalb County School Board to convert seven public schools into a charter cluster. In 2010, the Georgia Legislature amended the Georgia code to enable a local board to act...
The Wisdom of Practice
Latest Article on the Artistry of Teaching Around 1990, I started working on a research project which was published as a book entitled Minds on Science (library copy). I was interested in exploring teaching from a humanistic and progressive point of view. One aspect...
What Everybody Ought to Know About Teaching
In this post I am going to share some thinking about teaching that I learned along my journey as a teacher from three people. I future posts I'll share thoughts about teaching from other people who I've met along the way. What everybody ought to know about...
The Standards Emerged from the Progressive America Playbook: I Don’t Think So
Latest Story In my previous post, Are the Common Core and the Next Generation Science Standards Progressive Ideology, I argued that the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards are not the kind of movements that would attract the...
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