In an article published at the PeachPundit, the author, Charlie Harper suggests the Georgia Senate Bill 167 is an anti-science bill. In this post, I want to add to Mr. Harper's conclusion that the action of the Georgia Senate is major step backwards for education...
Will Georgia follow Florida by releasing teacher VAM-like scores? In Florida's case, the Florida Times-Union released links to all 116,723 teachers' VAM scores in an extraordinary unethical move that has happened other locations, including New York, and California....
Latest Story The first conference of The Network for Public Education (NPE) will be held this weekend at the University of Texas. NPE, formed by Diane Ravitch, is an advocacy group whose goal is to protect, preserve, and strengthen public education. The March 1 - 2...
Systems thinking teaching and learning can happen in any classroom, but it has a better chance of being successful when the school's principles and policies are rooted in systems thinking. However, as you will find out, the qualities that characterize systems...
For the past 13 years, American schools have endured a rebirth of an "industrial culture" that is the product of "mechanistic age thinking," described in-depth by Russell L. Ackoff (public library) in his writings, speeches, interviews and courses. This rebirth has...
In this article I am going to argue that the kind of thinking that will be required to reform education has been part of our culture for decades, but it runs counter to ways that reformists have been "tinkering" with schools, K - college. This "tinkering" is playing...
