Outcry about public education and opposition to its current state consisting of Common Core and its relatives: common core like state standards and assessments Curriculum aligned to those […]
What’s Wrong With Today’s Society Captured In 10+ Brutally Honest Illustrations contains illustrations by English artist John Holcroft showing the ills of political policy in many areas of our […]
The Education Writers Association (EWA) is the invitation only event for writers covering education. The title of this article was taken from EWA’s website […]
An eleven year old girl recently made internet news when she declared collective punishment should not be used by her teacher as it violated The Geneva Convention. The Daily […]
Are you a Twitter user? If so, you might want to check out the new data gathering Twitter wants to do with your account. Watch this tutorial on what Twitter […]
The above is a promoted tweet showing up on my feed. The responses are quite funny (some not suitable for work) and you can find them here. Why spend money […]
Is your child’s school experience like this? Joyful and creative? Or like this? Is creativity stifled in the quest for common expectations? An insightful short film on the effects of […]
Achieve the Core recently held a conference in Denver where #coreadvoactes tweeted their support of Common Core and NGO directed educational policy. From a sampling of the tweets, Common […]
These Common Core tweets are scary – but are they true? https://t.co/hOz9oaIeBj — for Student Success (@StudentSuccess) April 21, 2017 The people just aren’t into Common Core. The edreformers have […]
Witnessed at a restaurant this past week: a child less than 2 years old entertaining herself the entire time while three adults conversed before dinner, and then the two […]
In case you missed it yesterday, here is the latest edition of Fordham Institute’s April Fool’s articles celebrating #fakenews in education reform. Michael Petrilli reveals every ed reformer’s dream […]
When everybody is supposed to go to college, what happens to college standards? Chester Finn seems quite surprised to understand the cause and effect of the Common Core State […]
President Trump is set to meet with Bill Gates on Monday, March 20, according to The Hill: White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced the meeting on Thursday at […]
The question (*posted by a British educational provider) was answered and debated on twitter recently. Tom Bennett started an interesting twitter conversation on this question. There were several answers […]
If you are offended by the word bull**** you might want to stop reading now. However, if you think the main purpose of education is to teach human capital […]