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Recent Posts
- 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
- Common Core Collaborators: Six Organizational Portraits 31 August, 2018
- State of ELA under Common Core 19 July, 2018
- My letter to Bill Gates on how to prepare students for algebra 17 May, 2018
- Nation’s Report Card: Common Core delivering education stagnation 12 April, 2018
- There are Only Two Sides to US Education Policy (Thanks to the Parties) 8 April, 2018
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How to Honor the English Curriculum and the Study of U.S. History nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Resourc…
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Scholarly Progress or Learned Helplessness? nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Testimo…
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Nationally Normed Elementary Achievement Testing in America's Public Schools: How All Fifty States are Above the Na… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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How Making the Graduation Rate into a School Performance Measure Led to Credit Recovery (CR) and Undermined Teachin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Illusion of Rigor shar.es/aaTVYf
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Should Elementary Teachers Learn How To Teach Reading or Just Wing It? shar.es/aaBMfW
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Who watches the watchmen? Transparency might guard the integrity of the tests given by the National Assessment of E… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Category Archives: Erich Martel
Letter to NPR’s Ari Shapiro and producers of their “individualized learning” podcast
From: Erich Martel Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2018 To: ‘mediarelations@npr.org’ Dear Ari Shapiro and Individualized Learning (and Project Based Learning) Podcast Producers, I want to make three points re “Individualized Learning” and all claims pertaining to education: 1) Always look … Continue reading
Another post-Inaugural Change: The calendar
Here in DC, the nation’s capital, which has enjoyed Home Rule since 1974, but remains ultimately under the thumb of Congress and the President (thanks to Art. I, Section 8 of the Constitution), one never knows what surprise awaits each … Continue reading
Martin Luther King’s non-violence: Personal belief or strategy or both?
On a day when we remember Martin Luther King, I want to share a personal perspective on his advocacy of non-violence. When the wisdom of a great person is invoked, omission of the context that gave it meaning demeans the … Continue reading
Jay Mathews: pt 1 of 3 pt Review of Caleb Rossiter ‘s new book: “Aint Nobody Be Learnin’ Nothin’: The Fraud and the Fix for High Poverty Schools”
Mayor, Council Members, State Board of Education Members, This is assigned reading. It’s time to take off the rose colored glasses and stop the routine affirmations of “I support education reform” without looking past the polished press releases. Please stop … Continue reading
