The 2014 Elections, Public Education, and Teachers' Unions
Casey: Attacks will be made on teacher and public employee pensions. Due process rights for teachers will be assailed.
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November 13, 2014
November 11, 2014
Schools Should Teach Students to Lead, Not Follow
Meier: Schooling for democracy must essentially be schooling for teaching the arts and crafts of ruling: to students, their teachers, and their families and neighbors.
November 04, 2014
Wanted: A Campaign to Preserve 'Public' Schools
Meier: Did you know that teachers in the United States are at the very top when it comes to the number of hours they spend directly working with children? By top, of course, I mean bottom. They teach far, far more hours a week and weeks a year than teachers elsewhere.
October 28, 2014
The Dangers of the Common Core
Meier: As long as we see standards as 'The Standards' we will face this danger—and especially if who is right/wrong is based on impact on test scores designed by the same people who have mandated the standards.
October 23, 2014
Civic Literacy and the Power of 'Close Reading'
Casey: Could it be that if we focused on the actual standards, the extravagant claims that are made against the common core would be impossible to sustain?
October 21, 2014
We Need Standards Without Standardizing
Meier: Teaching "to" a prefabricated curriculum ... and thus also to the test that comes along with it cannot lead to the kind of feistiness that a good school should be an exemplar of.
October 16, 2014
Getting Past Surreal Arguments on the Common Core
Casey: In my judgment, the [common-core] standards have the potential to do some real good.
June 05, 2014
What's Good for Rich Kids Is Good for Poor Ones, Too
Meier: It is galling when rich people in the ed policy field tell me that class size doesn't matter-and pay a lot to send their kids to schools with half as many students per class as urban schools.
June 03, 2014
Reform for Other People's Children
Klonsky: What we know for sure is that all over the country, power-philanthropists are making "gifts" to resource-starved school systems.
May 27, 2014
Urban, Rural Schools Connected by Inequality
Klonsky: Small rural schools, which often served as community anchors, were (are) being closed by the hundreds.
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