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- There’s A Deeper Systemic Problem in the College Admissions Scandal No One Is Talking About 14 April, 2019
- Indoctrinating our youth: How a U.S. Public School Curriculum Skews the Arab-Israeli Conflict 14 April, 2019
- News Flash! AL’s Senate Pro Tem, who has previously stopped all anti-CC bills, filed an anti-CC bill today 20 March, 2019
- Links to articles on standards-based grading 16 March, 2019
- Interesting review of Arne Duncan’s book, by fellow Chicagoan Bill Ayers 19 February, 2019
- Missouri’s Show-Me Institute: Where Liberty (and Censorship?) Come First 7 January, 2019
- Letter to NPR’s Ari Shapiro and producers of their “individualized learning” podcast 30 November, 2018
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Twitter’s CEO doesn’t like being distracted. @BetsyM inc.com/betsy-mikel/ja… via @Inc
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For wealthy people or well-connected, college admissions are easier bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/… via @BostonGlobe
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Why does Kentucky’s public-school teacher to other staff ratio remain one of the worst in the nation? bipps.org/why-does-kentu…
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How NC State Became Free-Speech Friendly jamesgmartin.center/2019/04/how-nc… via @AcademicRenewal
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A tragically beautiful video captures Parisians singing hymns as they watch Notre Dame burn. upworthy.com/a-tragically-b…
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photo, not a painting, apparently twitter.com/PollWithUs/sta…
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Book Review: Scholarly Communication and Measuring Research – What Does Everyone Need to Know? blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…
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Monthly Archives: May 2016
Some Common Core Salespersons’ Salaries: DC Edu-Blob-ulants
Linked are copies of Form 990s for Marc Tucker’s National Center for Education and the Economy (NCEE), Checker Finn’s Fordham Foundation and Fordham Institute, and Bob Wise’s Alliance for Excellent Education (AEE). Each pays himself and at least one other … Continue reading
Censorship at Education Next
In response to their recent misleading articles about a fall 2015 Mathematica report that claims to (but does not) find predictive validity for the PARCC test with Massachusetts college students, I wrote the text below and submitted it to EdNext … Continue reading
Hard Work by Students
In my ten years of HS teaching I saw good (hard-working, interested in learning) students do well with good teachers, and ALSO do pretty well with poor teachers… I saw poor (not working, not interested in learning) students do poorly … Continue reading
The Education Writers Association casts its narrowing gaze on Boston, May 1-3
The Education Writers Association casts its narrowing gaze on Boston, May 1-3 Billions have been spent, and continue to be spent, promoting the Common Core Standards and their associated consortium tests, PARCC and SBAC. Nonetheless, the “Initiative” has been stopped … Continue reading
