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...
An Art of Science Teaching Inquiry In this post I argue that politicians, lobbyists and corporate executives have worked together to peddle their influence in the name of educational reform. This triad of influence is dismantling public education one charter school,...
Guest Letter by Mr. Ed Johnson, Advocate for Education, Atlanta, GA Ed Johnson wrote a letter in response to the Atlanta Public Schools Equity Audit which was prepared by researchers at Georgia State University to look at differences in the characteristics across...
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...
Latest Story Did you know that since 1999, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (technically founded in 2000) have made over 4,000 grants in the US Program, one of the major categories of funding for the Gates. The 4,000 grants were distributed among 16...
