By Anthony Cody. This morning I opened my email to find a message from “Bold Progressives,” who exist to rally support for Democratic Party candidates willing to fight for real change. The message was a survey from the “Progressive Change Campaign Committee,” asking if I thought Hillary …
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. Pearson employees may be off for the weekend but when they get to work tomorrow they will find they have a big mess to deal with. The news broke on Friday that Pearson has been monitoring student social media, and has worked with District officials in several instances to ferret out and reprimand …
By Michelle Strater Gunderson. “What the best and wisest parent wants for his child, that must we want for all the children of the community. Anything less is unlovely, and left unchecked, destroys our democracy.” John Dewey Last week the Local School Council at Nettelhorst Elementary School in Chicago …
By Tanaisa Brown, Secretary, Newark Students Union. We went to Cami Anderson’s office on Feb. 17 as an escalation from last Spring’s 17 hour occupation of the conference room where the Business Board Meeting was. This time, after the public participation portion of the meeting, we went to the elevator and …
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 Joe Mislansky. My name is Joe Mislansky and I am a ninth grade student in Ohio, fourth in a class of almost 700. I am against the standardized tests that are being forced upon me and other students in America. We are being treated as numbers on a test. We should be judged by our accomplishments and progress …
By Anthony Cody. I have received a training document from a recent conclave of corporate reformers that reveals in great detail how they would like to shape public discourse around the issue of testing. In recent years the ways in which complex issues are framed has become a central task for those seeking to …
“Remember that fear is natural, but there is greater fear in knowing what will happen if we don’t take a stand.” – Jia Lee The following is a War Report on Public Education and Living in Dialogue exclusive interview with Jia Lee. By Lucianna Sanson. Jia Lee, a special …
By Julianna Krueger Dauble. This statement was delivered to the Renton School District Board of Education on Wednesday, January 28. (see details here.) Public Education Stakeholders, Are we willing to stand by while 2/3 of our children fail a state mandated test? Are our children so similar to business …
