This post focuses on education and climate as seen by a teen living in Atlanta in the year 2051. I originally published it on April 21, 2012. Although a work of fiction, it is presented here as a reminder of the consequences of making decisions based on faulty reasoning and ignorance. I am re-publishing it today ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland
Latest Story: Reblogged from Mathbabe Michelle Rhee’s legacy Dr. O’Neil provides important comparisons between the Atlanta cheating scandal and the cheating scandal in Washington, D.C. under Michelle Rhee. The difference was the scandal in D.C. was buried. Originally...
Is 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 math and ELA (English Language Arts) aligned to the...
Cornerstone Landing Page A picture is worth a thousand words. Please accept apologies because my title is nearly a picture. I just couldn't pinch the title to a few words. That said... The authoritarian spray of standardization has spread harm and inflicted damage to...
Latest Story In this post I am going to show why I think Georgia teachers continue to impress, especially when we look at the 2014 CRCT results in the context of the past decade. In the wake of the Vergara v California tentative decision in which the plaintiffs...
Joyce Murdock Feilke has created and published this poster, that came about from her experiences in Austin, Texas as a Texas School Counselor. In several earlier posts, her experiences were featured on this blog, and you can read about them here. The powerful message...
