By Lauren Anderson. Just last week in Cincinnati, the NAACP voted in favor of a moratorium on the creation of new charter schools and a ramping up of regulation on existing charter schools. A few days later in Philadelphia, the Relay Graduate School of Education proudly co-hosted its “Grit + Imagination” …
By Jameson Brewer and Sarah Matsui. What are counter-narratives? And why are they significant in the conversation? Counter-narratives are essentially “little stories” of individuals and groups of people whose knowledge and histories have been excluded from the telling of official narratives (Giroux, …
By Anthony Cody. We met this week for what must have been about the 200th time. This group, the Learning to Teach Collaborative, began way back in 1988, when I was in my first year of teaching middle school science in Oakland. For the next dozen years, we met once a month, and over dinner, and with a bit of wine, …
By John Thompson. For a generation or more, school reform has been driven by the faith that better teaching can drive transformative and sustainable improvement of schools. I have no doubt that this hypothesis has potential for improving low-poverty schools, but the contemporary reform movement has placed a risky …
By Anthony Cody. When the history of modern education reform is written one of the most shameful chapters will be the continued embrace of various forms of “Value Added Models” for purposes of measuring the effectiveness of teachers in raising test scores. This month, the Department of Education is asking for …
