US DOE Continues to Force Test Failure on ELL Students and Children with Special Needs Nancy Bailey July 1, 2015 According to information given to me by Deborah Abramson Brooks, the U.S. Dept. of Education is insisting that the New York Board of Education continue to force all students with disabilities, except for those...
Challenge the Vision Joshua Katz June 25, 2015 I love the debates for all the subjects within the realm of education including testing, unions, student loan debt, and global comparisons. I have been finding lately that these debates in education lead to...
Passion-Driven Learning For Educators: What if the Genius Hour Model Was Used For PD? Lee Araoz June 16, 2015 I’ve been doing Genius Hour projects with my sixth graders for the last three years and the student response has been extremely positive. The children say it’s the best project they have ever done in...
16 Points about Education I Wish Presidential Candidates would Address Specifically Nancy Bailey June 8, 2015 Do you listen keenly for what politicians say about education and public schools and wind up being disappointed? There is currently, and has been for the last several elections, an absence of discussion about...
Teachers should have never lost their authority. Joshua Katz June 3, 2015 If teachers are to assert their authority in the national discussion about education, we will have to begin by what we do in the classroom. The national culture of testing, data, and rigor has put us in a...
This Article May Be Illegal – Lifting the Veil of Silence on Standardized Testing Steven Singer April 27, 2015 2 Comments Warning! What you are about to read may be a criminal act. I may have broken the law by putting this information out there. Edward Snowden leaked data about civilian surveillance. Chelsea...