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“One Teacher’s Cry: Why I Hate No Child Left Behind.”
The Quaker Agitator | September 4th 2008 by David
By Susan Hobart (The Progressive) August, 2008 - I’m a teacher. I’ve taught elementary school for eleven years. I’ve always told people, “I have the best job in the world.” I crafted curriculum that made students think, and they had fun whi read more
Academic Language: Good Idea.
The Frustrated Teacher | September 2nd 2008
I've gone off on Lucy Calkins, and for good reasons, not the least of which was the use of euphemisms instead of real academic language. I was taught (a shout out to my Teacher Education Program, whatever the hell it was) to use academic language wi read more
First Day Back At School
The Frustrated Teacher | August 25th 2008
No kids yet, but there are meetings! My favorite meeting today was when the second grade teachers went to listen to our literacy coach tell us about a NEW literacy program from Linda Dorn (of Reading Recovery fame (or infamy)). The new program is r read more
eduwonkette Revealed!!
The Frustrated Teacher | August 25th 2008
Yes, it's true. She has revealed herself. She is Jennifer Jennings.eduwonkette is written by Jennifer Jennings, a final year doctoral student in Sociology at Columbia University. I study many of the topics regularly covered on this blog: the effect read more
I Had An Original Thought: 2
The Frustrated Teacher | August 23rd 2008
The school reformers who would "professional development" us to death would also have you believe that most teachers just aren't very smart. These are the same folks who, rightly or wrongly, put weight in IQ indicators. For argument, let's stipulat read more
Schools Aren't Businesses!
The Frustrated Teacher | August 22nd 2008
Here is another one of those school-as-business/weigh-the-pig debunking articles. Most of these, and the ones I write, come from the position that teachers and schools cannot perform miracles; parents must be involved, and be accountable for the edu read more
The Obama/McCain Education Poll and the Heroic Sherman Dorn
Matthew K. Tabor - Education for the Aughts | August 22nd 2008
Yes, I know this post title sounds like an awesome children’s book, but it isn’t. Stick around - I’m going to spend a little time on this national education poll before I explain why Sherman Dorn is this week’s hero. In its ne read more
Teachers Hate NCLB (You Would Too If It Happened To You!)
The Frustrated Teacher | August 21st 2008
Here is an article by an elementary school teacher. She sounds like most of us! Read it and weep.One Teacher’s Cry: Why I Hate No Child Left BehindBy Susan J. Hobart, August 2008 IssueI’m a teacher. I’ve taught elementary school for eleven ye read more
Prove Your Premise!!
The Frustrated Teacher | August 20th 2008
I read a snippet of a story over at Schools Matter that just bolsters the correct notion that NCLB is a policy with a head-up-its-ass problem. Here is the mythbusting story from NewsReview, Reno!Policy myths cause a lot of government’s problems, an read more
Principals: God's Gift To Teachers?
The Frustrated Teacher | August 18th 2008
Over at LeaderTalk there is a post by Chris Hitch (not Hitchens) on how to handle the prima donna teacher. Basically, if a principal has a teacher who's students consistently do well, but rubs the principal the wrong way, the principal should fire t read more
The Democratic Plarform: We Sort Of Like NCLB
The Frustrated Teacher | August 15th 2008
We have an education angle in the new Democratic Platform. Unfortunately it bends towards the kind of reform I think is dangerous to public education. You can read about it here. Here is a key snippet:We will promote innovation within our public s read more
WILL LOWERING CLASS SIZES IMPROVE YOUR CHILD’S EDUCATION? MAYB…
READ WELL, THINK WELL | August 14th 2008
Here’s a modern myth: lowering class sizes will improve your child’s education. This is supported by the American Federation of Teachers. The A.F.T., one of the nation’s largest teachers’ unions, quotes a research study in support of lowe read more
Education Standards Without Funding
Tangled Up In Blue Guy | August 12th 2008 by Mike Haubrich
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SECRETARY SPELLINGS’ “GROWTH MODELS”
READ WELL, THINK WELL | August 6th 2008
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is experimenting with a new and (potentially) promising model of accountability: the Growth Model. Some states are experimenting with this model in order to meet the NCLB requirement that all children read more
Excerpt from READ WELL, THINK WELL
READ WELL, THINK WELL | August 5th 2008
Comprehension is a reader’s ability to understand the meaning of a book, a play, an article, a poem. This is a very complex human skill involving many different types of thinking processes. Many parents are familiar with programs that address read more
ClickN’ READ Phonics – Guaranteed Reading or Your Money Back
All Around The Mall.com | August 4th 2008 by Gary Wlassak
ClickN’ READ Phonics is the Number One trusted Name in Teaching Kids to Read. They Guarantee Reading or Your Money Back. 1,000’s of Schools and homes in over 60 countries use our program. ClickN’ READ Phonics is the first ever reading progr read more
NCLB: One Parent's View
The Frustrated Teacher | August 3rd 2008
Inspired, in part, by Jay P. GreeneI'm no NCLB expert. I'm not a professor of education, an education policy wonk or a teacher. I'm just a parent with a kid in a public elementary school that is in Program Improvement status. But I've seen the ha read more
How Stupid is This?
Chasing Myself | August 3rd 2008 by Janice Reijnaert
I'm watching this really dumb movie on Lifetime: Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal. These top five cheerleaders blackmail teachers, beat up other girls, drink and skip class, threaten their coach, get her fired and have the entire high school s read more
What is our vision? What can we create?
phsprincipal blog | August 2nd 2008 by Dave Meister
I like to read a lot about education, technology, and reform. Today I was reading a blog on Leadertalk about vision and how the work of a generation of teachers is being overshadowed by NCLB and high stakes testing. We are positioned in this communit read more
Private tutors…Are they helping or hurting our students?…
Ramblings Of A Student Teacher | August 1st 2008 by Coletha Browning
Let me start out by saying that more needs to be done when it comes to helping our children. These services don’t always prove to be the most advantageous; but I make this statement with the understanding that these programs can be improved. read more
NCLB Smackdown! Ouch!
The Frustrated Teacher | July 30th 2008
I don't know how I got there, but I ended up at cleveland.com reading some reactions to a pseudo-letter published in the Clevelnad Plain Dealer. It is an apology from a principal to his constituents (yeah, the parents, students and teachers) for hav read more
Jay P. Greene: Moron
The Frustrated Teacher | July 29th 2008
I was visiting this lover of NCLB's site. He has a book. It got slammed on the Amazon comments (full disclosure, it was half and half, but the good half are his sycophants). I copied and pasted one of the comments, from none other than Philip Kova read more
"Illusory" Test Score Gains
The Education Optimists | July 27th 2008 by Liam Goldrick
Here is a neat little story from today's Washington Post that puts my recent post about Maryland test scores into some context. Recent reports from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and [Bruce] Fuller's group, Policy Analysis for California Education, read more
Principal Apologizes for Testing
The Chancellor's New Clothes | July 25th 2008 by avoicein
Amazing story at EdNotes about a principal who felt compelled to apologize for all of the time and money spent on testing and “For making his focus as a principal no longer helping his staff teach students but helping them teach test indicators read more
Stephen Colbert Pussed Out On Spellings (updated)
The Frustrated Teacher | July 24th 2008
Margaret Spellings, the Secretary of Education, and NCLB proponent went on The Colbert Report last night. Stephen, to his credit, asked about sanctions, but his follow-up was a bit lacking.[this section updated to reflect the fact that prior to upda read more
True Student Performance
The Chancellor's New Clothes | July 22nd 2008 by avoicein
In an age where student performance is measured by drive-by-test taking, it’s heart warming to read a story which shows that not everything about children can be measured empirically. It’s also a testimony of what can happen when a teach read more
Educational Research: Mostly Crap
The Frustrated Teacher | July 20th 2008
Here is a little nugget from a 2007 journal article (or pdf) regarding the re-authorization of NCLB. In it they question the SBR (scientifically based research) requirement that all materials must meet to conform to NCLB. I have said many times tha read more
Student Achievement in Maryland
The Education Optimists | July 20th 2008 by Liam Goldrick
In Maryland, the glass is half full ... or is it half empty?From 2007 to 2008, the share of students statewide who were judged proficient or better rose six percentage points in reading and four points in math, to 82 percent and 76 percent, respectiv read more
I Had An Original Thought...
The Frustrated Teacher | July 20th 2008
About merit pay for teachers: If we give money to a teacher because his students did better on the test one year, do we take the money away when the students don't do better?And if, per chance, student scores in that teacher's class were to vary fro read more
NBER Says It's The Parents!
The Frustrated Teacher | July 20th 2008
In a new report out by the National Bureau of Economic Research, they say this about our poor graduation rates and from where the problem may stem:The origins of this dropout problem have yet to be fully investigated. Evidence suggests a powerful rol read more
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