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Sol Stern Thinks Common Core Is About “Rich Curriculum”
Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog: If one is going to entitle a post, A Sorry Attack on the Common Core, which is what Sol Stern did on March 2, 2014, one should really be certain that one’s logic is flawless. Otherwise, someone might come along and write a post that rips through those weaknesses in logic and, well, show just how “sorry”…
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A successful history of—and the threat to—Public Education in the United States
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: I’m sure you’ve heard for years—even decades—that the public schools are failing; that teachers are lazy, incompetent and their labor unions are responsible for this so-called failure. The solution: fire the teachers, close the public schools and get rid of the labor unions. Then turn education over to private sector corporations…
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The power of academic competitions for students who want to learn
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: During a Facebook conversation, an internet friend mentioned how nice it would be if there were academic competitions as popular as sports. I replied that there are popular academic competitions for those students who are interested and who usually have supportive parents that value an academic education. The public schools may…
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A Founding Father speaks from the grave: ” The people who own the country ought to govern it.”
Originally posted on DCGEducator: Doing The Right Thing: John Jay When the Founding Fathers wisely created a constitution with checks and balances, they created what they thought was a “properly designed state”. As Richard Hofstadter wrote in An Age of Reason,” A properly designed state, the Founders believed, would check interest with interest, class with class, faction with faction, and one branch of…
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Who do Americans trust and why we should elect a nurse for President
Seventy-two percent of Americans trust public school teachers to teach their children in the public schools.
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If we are going to change the schools, we are going to change America
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Rise Above the Mark is a documentary that focuses on the damage being caused by the “corporate takeover” of America’s public schools. The purpose of Rise Above the Mark, narrated by Peter Coyote, is to educate the general public about the “corporate takeover” of Indiana public schools and what parents, community…
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The View from a Writer’s Window
What do full time writers look at as they work? Where you write is part of the process.
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YES! Reaching the Public with “The Myth of Our Failing Schools”
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: YES! Magazine devotes a special issue to public education and its findings will not surprise readers of this blog. The lead article by executive editor Dean Paton is “The Myth Behind Public School Failure,” demonstrating that our public schools are NOT failing. Here is the line that follows the title: “In the rush to…
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