Showing posts with label education reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education reform. Show all posts
Saturday, March 19, 2016

If Heart Surgery Was Like School Reform

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The operation to be performed on Mr. Viall , scheduled for Monday, would be complicated to say the least. So the experts gathered. The lead...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Experts for America: Like Teach for America, only Better!

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Project 98.6°. (Dateline: Washington, D.C.) Today, for the second time in less than a month, the U.S. education establishment was rocked by ...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

The Yellow Brick Road to Nowhere: Teachers and the Tea Party Movement

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I’VE BEEN HAVING AN ONLINE DEBATE with a Tea Party supporter, focused on the effect on schools of standardized testing. I think it’s goin...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Happy Fathers' Day: A Problem in American Education

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WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA TOOK OFFICE, I had high hopes that education policy would improve. I hoped he and Arne Duncan, his new Secretary of Edu...
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Monday, June 6, 2011

Limiting Real Education: The Curse of Standardized Testing

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ONE REASON MOST OF THE "LEADERS" IN EDUCATION favor standardized testing is because most of those "leaders" never had...

Sarah Palin and Real Education Reform: Put Down that Fork!

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TODAY THE REALLY BIG TALK IN EDUCATION is all about “higher standards” or “bench-marking” U. S. standards to standards in countries lik...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Numbers Don't Lie: Our Teachers (and Doctors) Are Failing

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I RETIRED FROM TEACHING three years ago. So I finally have time to do a little writing. If you follow education news these days you have t...
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