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Garfield High School Educators Thank Nathan Hale High School for Their Resistance to Common Core Testing
We are writing to congratulate you for taking a bold stand against the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium testing.
“Test-imony”: Dr. Wayne Au’s Address to Washington State Legislature Against New Teacher Evaluation Bill
Politicians in Washington State are attempting to reduce educators to lifeless bits of inaccurate data.
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Nine Billionaires Are About to Remake New York’s Public Schools
An investigation reveals how a group of hedge funders are about to get exactly what they paid for.
The Need for Wisdom
The University of Everywhere, however, could just as easily be called the University of Nowhere because it exists only on the internet.
Children of the Code: Big Data, Little Kids
In the era of Big Data, children are tracked, analyzed and evaluated.
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Between the No Longer and the Not Yet: Culture Circle as Resistance to a Pedagogy of Sedation
Discipline in education is highly valued.
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The Student Debt Time Bomb
Indebted students are a force to be reckoned with.
Whither Public Education?
The author presents a critique of neoconservative education policy, arguing it is based on three fallacies.
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The Intellectual as Servant of the State
WWII and the Cold War brought to Washington a wave of deep thinkers, their agenda focused on “national security.”
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The Important Things Standardized Tests Don’t Measure
Responsibility for evaluating learner performance should be returned to those best positioned to do it: Classroom teachers.