The Scripted Prescription
Testing mania reaches the pre-K classroom. It saddened me to think that my daughter’s first impression of school was based on taking a test and failing it.”
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Test Restricted Content
Bogus Claims About Reading First
When it comes to Reading First, don’t believe the hype
Think Less Benchmarks
Thanks to the folks at the Discovery Channel
Textbook Scripts, Student Lives
Textbooks
Bonfire of the Disney Princesses
Contrary to their spin machine, Disney’s princesses are far from role models
Underfunded Schools Cut Past Tense from Language Programs
A part of American school curricula for more than 200 years
TV Selfishness and Violence Explode During ‘War On Terror
Six years into the ‘War on Terror
Queer Matters
While we were excited to support the opening of the educational closet
Feeding Two Birds With One Hand
I can’t imagine any teacher union leader or local school board member who wouldn’t welcome a new federal program that would make the issue of healthcare benefits a moot point in bargaining.”
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Building Teacher Solidarity
“I would really like to see a new movement that gives the kind of hope
for change that there was when I came into teaching in the late 1960s.”
Prophet Motives
Any discussion of charter schools must ask not only whether charters promote a worthwhile vision of public education
Fault Lines in Merit Pay
Far from addressing the systemic
City Teaching; Beyond the Stereotypes
For city teachers
Beware The Jargon Factory
A chapter from Kozol’s Letters to a Young Teacher reminds us that nothing good comes from parroting consultant gibberish such as metamoments” and “interactional time.”
Race: Some Teachable–and Uncomfortable–Moments
A tense moment opens the door to a deeper discussion on race than this teacher intended.
Revisiting Ruby Payne
The New York Times Magazine was in a good position to pierce Payne’s flash and rhetoric. Instead, they gave her an uncritical
Teaching for Change
Rethinking Schools challenges readers to support an endangered, yet valuable teacher resource project.
Discovering Andrew Clements
A graduate student discovers a cache of social justice novels for young people.
You’re Asian, How Could You Fail Math?
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Taking A Chance With Words
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NCLB Stalled, but Still Armed and Dangerous
While the bipartisan consensus that passed NCLB in 2001 has splintered, the old, unimproved version of the law is not going away anytime soon.
Kid Nation
CBS goes overboard with this painful exploitation of children.
Wish You Were Here
A University of Nebraska professor takes a satirical look at Education Week’s Quality Counts report, where the Cornhusker state ranked at the bottom.
Public Studies Puncture the Privatization Bubble
Two studies refute the claims made by voucher advocates: private schools are better than public ones, and competition makes public schools better.
Pressuring the Gap
Ohio attempts to close achievement gap by focusing on 9th-grade males