Category: Lloyd Lofthouse

Originally posted on gadflyonthewallblog: ? Here’s a high stakes testing statistic you won’t hear bandied about on the news. ? The suicide rate among 10- to 14-year-olds doubled between 2007 and 2014 – the same period in which states have increasingly adopted Common Core standards and new, more rigorous high stakes tests. ? For the first time, suicide surpassed car…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: As you know, I was for many years involved in the rightwing corporate reform made cement. As I realized that the real end game was not to “reform” public schools but to privatize them, I became a skeptic. Then as I saw that all of their strategies were failing, I jumped ship. I am…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Paul Horton teaches history at the University of Chicago Lab School. He writes: Creating a Commonwealth: July 4th as a Concept For most Americans July 4th is a celebration of American Independence. It is a day of music, fireworks, and grilling. We are bombarded with empty rhetoric about freedom from civic boosters who never…

Source: MTA vs. Personalized Learning: “We Can Fight it.”

After sixteen years of marriage to Anchee, we divorced in early 2015. It wasn’t easy going public on my blog about the divorce. Anchee is the best woman I’ve ever known, and there will be no details beyond this. Anchee and I remain friends, and she still cooks me great tasting pies without adding any sugar. Before I wrote this…