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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more