Dear Parent Friends, For a while now you’ve been hearing me rant about the negative effects of high stakes testing in education. Most of you have offered polite nods of understanding-being kind because of our friendship. Perhaps you even agree with me, but feel that either you don’t have enough understanding of the issues, orContinue reading ““Education-Corporate Reform 101”: What Parents Need to Know”
Monthly Archives: June 2012
The Hand That Holds the Data Rules the World
The title of this piece is a play on the old phrase “the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.” Why? Because in this era of unfettered free-market wheeling and dealing to profit the Masters of the Universe at the expense of the rest of us, the key players in education reform know allContinue reading “The Hand That Holds the Data Rules the World”
In Honor of the “We”
My blog this week is dedicated to a few of my heroes: Individuals dedicated to schools as a democratic right and education as the foundation for social justice. Their comments below were originally posted as comments which can be found at Daily Cloudt . But their ideas are too good to “waste”-or to languishContinue reading “In Honor of the “We””
If you can’t find justice …who moved?
A while back I made up a really bad joke that goes like this: Question: How many academics does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer: One-they stand on the chair holding the light bulb and wait for the world to revolve around them. I made this joke up after I had becomeContinue reading “If you can’t find justice …who moved?”
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