Sunday, June 29, 2014

Finland Has Better Teachers, Better Colleges! And Fluffier Kittens!

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Do nations like Finland and South Korea really beat us in education? And kittens? I’m getting sick of hearing about how this countr...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Is the Teaching Profession at Risk?

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It’s not quite right to say a recent link on the Facebook page of Waiting for Superman surprised me. My reaction was more like: “Holy crap...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Big Words from School Reformers, Small Deeds: An Aesop Fable

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BIG WORDS. Small deeds. Joel I. Klein, former New York City schools chancellor (left); U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (center)...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Another School Shooting in America: The Blood is always the Same

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When will the gunfire end? There was another school shooting yesterday. This time the blood spilled out on the floor of a high school i...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Sixty Years Ago: Brown v. Board of Education

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Sixty years ago tomorrow the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education . What was Amer...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Standardized Testing: So Far, We Might as Well Dump the Money in the Ocean

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Teachers, imagine you had $1.7 billion to spend this year to buy good books and hand them out to students. Do you think average reading scor...
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Monday, May 5, 2014

Do Schools Fail or Do Homes Fail?

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As a veteran teacher (now retired), I’ve long been interested in the role parents play in American education. I spent 33 years in a class...
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