Dumping the Evidence: Remind Me Again Why Anti-Testing is ‘Progressive’?
Well, this isn’t subtle. From Alternet’s “7 Big Public Education Stories of 2014”: Opt-out activists are targeting more than just the tests themselves. As an assistant principal in New York explained...
View ArticleFixing Ourselves: 3 Suggestions for Fellow White Liberals Who Want to Fix...
A while back MinnPost reprinted my post: Forget About Fixing Black Kids. What If We Fixed White Liberals Instead? The piece got over 100 comments. There was the usual thread of “You Ed Reformers Are...
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Mickelsen Nails It: Don’t Blame Teens or Parents for a Teacher-Driven Opt-Out...
The opt-out movement against standardized testing in public schools has hit the gilded streets of Southwest Minneapolis. Parent activist Lynnell Mickelsen has seen first hand that it isn’t a...
View ArticleThe ‘Fundies’ of the Left: Teachers Unions, Liberals and Fundamentalist Culture
For me, as a Democrat, one of the weirdest things about working on education reform has been the never-ending fundamentalist flashbacks. You see, I spent my first 22 years among the Baptists—and yes,...
View ArticleThe Privileged Doth Protest Too Much: Part II
Part I of this post outlined what luxury problems look like in education. In this second installment, I discuss how a sense of entitlement allows educational inequality to persist and belittles those...
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