This article at Education Week echoes something I’ve been saying for quite some time: A call for national standards ensures that we continue doing what is most wrong with our bureaucratic schools (establish-prescribe-measure) and that we persist in looking away from the largest cause of low student achievement: childhood poverty. …Read the Rest
This space has been inactive for quite a while, but I’ve decided that I’m going to get back to it. …Read the Rest
Well, it has certainly been a long time since I updated here! After finishing the long-term position last January, one …Read the Rest
Last Friday, I finished up a long-term job. It wasn’t my first long-term job, but it was the first one …Read the Rest
I’ve been hired as a long-term sub, teaching 8th grade English language arts. I’ll be working until the end of …Read the Rest
I don’t agree with everything this author has to say, but I do think that this was an excellent point: …Read the Rest
I’m searching for some good websites I can direct my students to, for help in finding good argumentative essay topics. …Read the Rest
Over at Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch a few weeks ago, they “reviewed the reviews” of Freedom Writers. I really want to …Read the Rest
“Those of us who are interested in improving education have a habit of paying too much attention to schools and …Read the Rest
A memo, to any classroom teachers who might be reading…and to myself, should I actually get one of those coveted …Read the Rest
I’m a big fan of Anna Quindlen. I just came across this column, from last fall, and thought it was …Read the Rest
