By Anthony Cody. This week we have seen a renewed attempt to rehabilitate the beleaguered Common Core standards, just as the scores arrive in many states, largely meeting projections that they would yield increased failure rates and a wider “achievement gap.” These results are the most basic problem that the …
By Amanda Koonlaba. A recent Education Week Teacher article titled, “Education is Political. Can Teachers Afford Not to Be?” examined the interesting dynamic between teachers and politics. Regardless of any controversy surrounding Edweek or Ross Brenneman (author), two quotes from this particular article …
By Anthony Cody. Poor John Oliver. After he did a segment on the insanity of our nation’s testing machine, the field of education’s only multi-million dollar blog, The Education Post, has taken after him with a vengeance. Oliver joins others with the nerve to question the nation’s obsession with standardized …
By Anthony Cody. Education blogger Alexander Russo has offered an analysis of recent education journalism in a piece entitled “Common problems with Common Core reporting.” Russo hosts a blog called This Week in Education, sponsored by Scholastic corporation. Russo reached out to me for input as he was …
By Anthony Cody. This week, Brian Williams is suffering from a public backlash because of the way a story about helicopters under fire in Iraq evolved over the years, leading to a version that inaccurately described the incident as one where his own life was in danger. But this was not the first journalistic …
By Anthony Cody. Last Saturday I shared the dramatic story of how a group of parents and teachers convinced the Democratic Party Committee of the State of Washington to vote in favor of a strong statement rejecting the Common Core standards. Perhaps there could be no better issue to compare and contrast mainstream …
By Anthony Cody. Bill Gates sounded surprisingly defensive when asked about the Gates Foundation’s work in education, in a video interview made available this week by the Wall Street Journal. His statement suggests he is unaware of much of what his money is buying in the field of education. Here is the exchange …
By Anthony Cody. The Education Writers Association has decided that, although I was awarded a first prize for my writing just last year, I am no longer permitted to submit my work for consideration for future awards. Leaders of the organization have decided that I do not meet their definition of a journalist. …
By Paul Horton. Why have those defending public education had such an uphill fight in crafting a compelling counter to the mainstream message that “public education is broken”? How can we break through this monotonous monopoly of thinking with an alternative message? As Noam Chomsky points out, the mainstream …
By John Thompson. The Education Post supposedly seeks a bluster-free conversation to elevate the voices of students, parents, and teachers. Its Director of Outreach, Chris Stewart, does so by asserting that those who disagree with him are “perhaps” racists. In “Condoleeza Rice is the Wrong Messenger with the …
