Guest Post; The following CALLER & GOOGLE excerpt has been floating in cyberspace with different versions since 2007. Original author unknown. The final paragraph was added by Michelle as a timely reminder that should probably be sent to Federal Legislators and State Boards of Education and perhaps local boards. Maybe they will care when this … Continue reading National Database Clearinghouse: Google Pizza Runs Your Life
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“Academic Kindergarten”
Please make it stop. Has everyone in education gone mad? “Academic kindergarten”? It’s worse than it sounds. Is anyone else stunned-numb at this? This edu-speak? This academic newspeak that oozes out of these clinical dissections of how children learn? It never stops. Another day, another brain-bruising study … and another tried-and-true bit of educational common … Continue reading “Academic Kindergarten”
Common Core is Pure Hemlock
Common Core is pure hemlock. However it’s rebranded, this reform has poisoned public education … and the profession has almost died off. No one wants to teach anymore. Master-teachers are rushing to retirement … and rookies are fleeing in mid-year. Teacher prep programs are starving for would-be teachers. And now we’re hearing from “lifers” … … Continue reading Common Core is Pure Hemlock
What’s Happened To Us?
What's happened to us? How did we sink into such an ugly circumstance that we dare use words like “grit and rigor” in the same sentence as “child”? Who thought that was a good idea? And who permissioned that so-called “good idea” to become part of childhood education? Childhood has no reality. It’s not supposed … Continue reading What’s Happened To Us?
Make It Stop!
Look how cavalier we’ve become about childhood. How liberally we allow others to guinea-pig our children … and how uncourageous we are in their protection. Too many reckless people toy with their innocence, tamper with their sexuality, and monkey around with their learning. Too many are too determined to over-water their brains … and starve … Continue reading Make It Stop!
We’re Doing This All Wrong.
We’re doing this all wrong. Some day .... somehow … education will discover a proper obsession. Until then … children will suffer these testing-despots … and too many adults will make believe it’s all okay. And it’s not. But let’s be certain about this … there are some things in life that just can't … Continue reading We’re Doing This All Wrong.
A Grave New World
The entire universe of education has been turned inside out over the last decade. Long-revered pedagogical precepts have been blue-penciled by classroom-allergic theorists now leveraged by profiteers who see public schools as the next sustainable profit-producing mother lode. And the political class … put into office by all of us … has mocked our vote … Continue reading A Grave New World
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Let's act like some steam-punks ... and do some time travel. It seems that present day educrats … think Arne Duncan, John King, and Bill Gates … might have channeled a dusty figure from the past. Meet Horace Mann who ... at times ... could actually be a pretty horrid man. Mann, a mid-nineteenth century peacock, was perhaps America’s … Continue reading Déjà Vu All Over Again
Missives Worth Reading 