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Teacher-blogger Dina Strasser on “Common Core” Standards
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) invited teacher-blogger Dina Strasser to comment on the “common core” standards. Portions of her commentary are below. * * * When ASCD asked me to write on the National Governors...
Remarks by the President on Strengthening America’s Education System
The White House: Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 04, 2009 James C. Wright Middle School, Madison, Wisconsin 1:40 P.M. CST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Hello, Madison! (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you. Everybody, please, have a seat. Have a seat. It is good to see all of you. Good to be back in Madison....
Press Release: Regents Prepare to Transform Teacher Preparation
For Immediate Release November 16, 2009 For More Information Contact: Tom Dunn, Jonathan Burman or Jane Briggs at (518) 474-1201 Internet: http://www.nysed.gov In Albany today the New York State Board of Regents took the first in a series of steps to strengthen the preparation and practice of teaching, with a specific emphasis on providing high needs...
Thousand Demonstrate Against California Education Cuts
From: substancenews.net: Jack Gerson and other reporters (as indicated) – September 25, 2009 Well over 5,000 students, staff and faculty packed the University of California Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza on September 24, 2009, to protest sweeping layoffs, deep cuts...
Labor Beat Chicago Video Exposes Duncan’s Record
From substancenews.net: George N. Schmidt – September 26, 2009 The Chicago labor news organization Labor Beat is still circulating the hit video about Arne Duncan and his work in Chicago at http://blip.tv/file/2428857 As it becomes more and more clear to more and...
Great News: Capitalism Will Provide High Paying Jobs for All, but Only With National Standards!
On July 2, 2009 The American Prospect published an interview with Dane Linn, director of education for the National Governors’ Association (NGA). In the interview, Linn “innovates” the already well-developed ruling class method of disinformation. This...
Individual Teacher Incentives, Student Achievement and Grade Inflation
As the U.S. Department of Education moves ahead with efforts to bride states (“Race to the Top”) into its “model” of school reform, which includes some version of merit or performance pay for teachers, this recent study of the effect of performance pay for teachers on students’ test scores in Portugal is worthy of study. While there are some...
“Best Urban School District in America” Blocks Access to Websites Critical of “Education Reform”
Reports on Gerald Bracey’s Education Disinformation and Detection Reporting Agency email discussion listserv indicate that teachers, students and administrators in the Aldine Independent School District, Houston, Texas are blocked from viewing at least two websites offering alternative views of “education reform” in the United States. Based on...
Federal vs. National Standards
In recent reports about the movement for “common standards for core curriculums in mathematics and reading” spearheaded by various monopolies, state governors, and the U.S Department of Education, an important distinction has been raised. In today’s edition of Inside Higher Ed, Doug Lederman writes: Today...
Defining ‘College Ready,’ Nationally
From Insidehighered.com: “That too many young people come out of high school ill-prepared for college or the work force is little disputed. The questions of why that’s so and how to fix the situation, however, have too often resulted in finger pointing, with many college faculty...
