A famous turn of phrase about teams is that a team of experts does not make an expert team. Just as troubling, the evidence suggests that, for the most part, people aren’t being taught this skill either.
Read MoreEvidence-based should not be elevated to the status of Next Silver Bullet That Will Fix Everything, and government definitely absolutely positively should not get involved in picking winners and losers and then mandating which will be used.
Read MoreDisguising their aims as reform, our political decision-makers have marginalized teachers, teacher educators, and researchers to the point that those with real insights and knowledge are blamed for the failures they might have avoided.
Read MoreThe accountability paradigm was destined to fail because the problems with our schools had little to do with a lack of accountability. But this current era of reform has also done immeasurable harm to students, teachers, and public education.
Read MoreBetsy DeVos-- the person charged with taking care of the public system that she would like to kill. What a wacky world we live in. So don't expect her to be moved by all the waste of tax dollars paying for failed or fraudulent charter schools.
Read MoreThe benefits of read aloud with older students are clear. The question now becomes, “How much read aloud?” To answer this question all teachers have to assess their own instructional situation.
Read MoreThink about it. Who gets to choose whether you attend one of these schools? Not you. Certainly you have to apply, but it’s totally up to the charter or voucher school operators whether they want to accept you.
Read MoreOne maneuver that has no research in its favor is plopping a three or four-year-old in front of a computer, even in their parent’s lap, to focus on developmentally inappropriate skills.
Read MoreWomen remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. In the field of engineering, for example, women earned fewer than 20 percent of doctorates in 2014.
Read MoreEach year, school-aged children living with their families in California’s migrant family housing centers, many of whom are U.S. citizens, miss between three to six months of schooling.
Read MoreFlorida's elected Tallahassee-dwellers have pretty much dropped all pretense; under Governor Desantis, the goal is to completely demolish public education, with no more cover story than to insist that the resulting privatized system is still a "public school system."
Read MoreIt sounds so patriotic…Educational Freedom. But public education in traditional public schools is what is truly educational freedom.
Read MoreInterest in campus free speech legislation among elected officials has largely been driven by a belief that conservative speakers on college campuses are under threat. To appeal to supporters with such views, President Donald Trump was likely convinced to issue his March 2019 executive order on campus free speech.
Read MoreThis is episode 51 of the TeachThought Podcast. Drew Perkins talks with Anthony Cody about the second edition of his book The Educator and the Oligarch and new developments in the type of education reform led by the Gates Foundation.
Read MoreIt's not that we shouldn't discuss standardized test results, but we should stop pretending that they represent some larger truth. We should call them by their name, simply "scores on the standardized test."
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