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California teachers are silenced by their teachers union
By Rebecca Friedrichs – SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Throughout our nation, teachers are being trained to combat bullying within our schools and social media. It’s ironic that this movement is led… Read more
Can the Left and Right Find Common Ground on Common Core and High-Stakes Testing?
by Paula Bolyard – Yes, but ask a few important questions before you decide which team you’re on. I recently wrote about an event called Occupy the DOE, where many of… Read more
Alternative routes to teaching become more popular despite lack of evidence
By Jackie Mader – INGLEWOOD, Calif.—In the back of a tenth-grade geometry classroom on a recent morning at Washington Preparatory High School, nine miles southeast of Los Angeles, Landon Yurica… Read more
GATES BUYING THE COMMON CORE
Whoo-Hoo! Occupy the Schools By Susan Ohanian – In response to a poverty rate that tops 90% in many urban and rural schools –and 1.6 million homeless children—many in schools… Read more
TEXAS SBOE MEMBER ROWLEY SAYS CURRICULUM SHOULD TEACH ‘TRADITIONAL’ GENDER ROLES
[5.10.13 – I am proud of Marty Rowley, new Texas State Board of Education member, who has had the courage to support traditional values. The following leftist piece is cross-posted... Read more
Pushed into Common Core? Thanks For Volunteering!
Editor’s Note. Chester Finn has been paid off for his blinded support of Common Core. No reasonable person with his past experience would support this massive, controlling education legislation without… Read more
The Model Minority Myth: What 50 Years of Research Does and Does Not Tell Us
by Dr. Nicholas D. Hartlep – It is little wonder why Asian-Americans are perceived by the wider higher education community to be paragons of scholarly success, despite their treatment by… Read more
‘We’re Number Umpteenth!’: Debunking the Persistent Myth of Lagging U.S. Schools
Maybe Alfie needs to share the blight of the 7,000 plus kids per day dropping out of school. Alfie Kohn – Beliefs that are debatable or even patently false may… Read more
Common Core must be stopped
In her April 14 opinion piece, “Myths and realities surrounding the Common Core standards” Kaycee Eckhardt impugns the character of opposing voices — a tactic commonly used by advocates of… Read more
When teachers are cheating, everyone is cheated
Deborah Simmons – Here’s another feather for the cap of advocates who want to establish solid lines that link actual teaching to actual learning. Mere test scores are insufficient. Indeed,… Read more »