Saturday, November 20, 2010

Repost: Testing, 1 - 2 - 3 ... (January 22, 2009)

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A lot of people, of all ages, like to complain about what they feel is an inappropriate and excessive emphasis on "testing" as a...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Repost: Race to the Bottom (March 16, 2009)

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Here's the official meme from the Grand High Inquisitors with respect to the tragicomedy they call "differentiated instruction....
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Nodody Expects the Spanish Inquisition, Redux

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Remember last year I wrote about my school's Grand High Inquisition (a.k.a., Quality Review), and how the result was absolutely hilario...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

Trousers in Conflagration, Redux

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Here's something I've also been saying for years: Education Secretary: Schools Have Been Lying to Students (h/t Crooks and Liars...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Cross-Post: Dropout Factories

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I ran across this today at Andrew Sullivan's blog The Daily Dish , posted by Conor Friedersdorf. It's a letter to the editor from a...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Repost: Redefining Failure (June 6, 2007)

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A couple of years ago I read an article in the Daily News about school officials in Britain who wanted to remove the word "failure...
Sunday, June 6, 2010

Gee, What a Suprise.

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This was in today's NY Post: NY Passes Students Who Get Wrong Answers on Tests State education officials had vowed to "strengt...
Saturday, April 3, 2010

Repost: Toxic Truths, Part II (March 28, 2008)

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As a follow-up to a previous post, Toxic Truths (which you might want to read first; this is a very long post), I'd like to examine e...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Bill Maher's New Rule: Don't Blame the Teachers

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Bill Maher: "New Rule: Let's Not Fire the Teachers When Students Don't Learn, Let's Fire the Parents." I've been...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Repost: The Great Failure (April 7, 2008)

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"The persistent weakness of American liberalism is its fixation with rights and procedures at any cost to efficiency and common sense....
Friday, February 26, 2010

God Hates Me.

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Between the fall of 1997 and January 8, 2010, I spent the better part of 12 school years as a New York City teacher. In all that time, if me...
Friday, February 5, 2010

Over the Top

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Two articles in the Daily News in the last couple of days caught my attention: Mom Fumes After Son, 9, Is Busted for Bringing 2-Inch Lon...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

J.D. Salinger, 1919-2010

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J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye and a main character in the novel Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella, has died at the age of 91 ...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Jay - Ee - Tee - Ess ...

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No, I'm not going to pontificate here about if/how/why my perennially heartbreaking, soul-crushing New York Jets are going to beat the m...