Nancy Flanagan: It’s Time to End Our National Obsession with Test Scores
Nancy Flanagan is a retired teacher with decades of experience. In this post, she remembers when she used to take standardized test scores seriously. Then...
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Beware the Insidious Attack on Your Local School Board
I recently learned of a rightwing website collecting complaints about school boards, presumably to encourage dissension and hostility at school board meetings. The School Board...
The Rightwing, Fear-Mongering Drive to Capture Local School Boards
New post on Network for Public Education. Peter Montgomery: The Right-Wing Political Machine Is Out to Take Over School Boards by Fanning Fears of Critical...
Twitter Frauds and Their Followers
What follows is an alarming story about a young man who hoaxed thousands of people on Twitter, including Trump. The real shocker is not this...
Forbes: Trump Is a Billionaire Who Doesn’t Pay Taxes
Dan Alexander, a senior editor at Forbes who covers Trump’s businessses, writes that Trump really is a billionaire. His net worth, he says, is about...
Dana Milbank: How a Very Stable Genius Will End the Pandemic
Dana Milbank has become my favorite columnist. I hope you can open this column from the Washington Post, because he has added links to everything,...
Paul Thomas: Two Cases of “Epistemic Trespassing”
Paul Thomas of Furman University describes two examples of “epistemic trespassing”: Ruby Payne’s theories about poverty and the current advocacy for “the science of reading.”...
Laura Chapman: EdReports is NOT Independent!
Laura Chapman writes: “EdReports, an independent curriculum review nonprofit, rates curriculum on three gateways: Text Quality, Building Knowledge, and Usability. Amplify CKLA earned a green...
Audrey Watters: The Most Important Post of the Decade: The 100 Worst EdTech Disasters of the Decade
I just opened my email and discovered this brilliant post by Audrey Watters, whose critical voice on EdTech is indispensable. Watters lists the 100 biggest...