“College and Career Readiness” means students can pass tests but can’t balance their checkbooks. Kathleen Jasper April 19, 2015 3 Comments I teach 80 undergraduate students in the College of Education every Monday night. All of them are what we call “college and career ready”. Last week I gave these “college and career ready” students an...
6 triumphs to remember in the embattled struggle to end high-stakes testing and Common Core. Kathleen Jasper March 30, 2015 Sometimes after a week or so of extreme education activism – keeping up with all the questions, disseminating information to everyone who needs it, writing legislators, listening to inept policy makers...
Could collaboration save the teaching profession? Kathleen Jasper March 27, 2015 3 Comments We published an article 3 months ago titled Why Half of the Nation’s New Teachers Can’t Leave the Profession Fast Enough. To date, it's our most read article on the site - almost 700,000 views and...
Don’t mess with mothers who have Facebook accounts. Kathleen Jasper March 9, 2015 I once asked my undergraduate students to join a Facebook group I created for our class. One student raised his hand and said, “I haven’t been on Facebook since my mom started using it a few years ago.”...
Shaming Students One Wall at a Time Kathleen Jasper February 16, 2015 136 Comments The losers in school know who they are at a young age – usually by kindergarten or first grade. And losers are easy to pick out, because their reading progress, or lack there of, is usually displayed on a...
Opt Out Orlando Just Took Florida Legislators to School Kathleen Jasper February 2, 2015 3 Comments Call Cindy Hamilton The Bus Driver, because she just took a bunch of Florida Legislators to school. On January 29, 2015 she addressed the Orange County Legislative Delegation. The legislators on this panel...