Chicago Public School Teacher Michelle Gunderson discusses Common Core Standards and standardized education. Thanks to Bill Baykan for this clip from his new documentary “The Public School Wars”.
Anthony Cody discusses The Gates Foundation Education Agenda in this promo for the 2015 education documentary “The Public School Wars,” in production now.
I republish this video in response to the events in #Ferguson. Malcolm London is a Chicago poet who read for us at Occupy the Department of Education in DC, in 2013. His words, like those of BAT Denisha Jones, take this white man, as close as he can get, to a world that he will never really know.
New York based editor and filmmaker Michael Elliot tackles standardized testing in “Refuse the Tests”, his poignant short film for changethestakes.org.
By Stephen Krashen Bill Nye (“The Science Guy”) is enthusiastic about the Common Core because he feels that there are some basic principles that students simply need to know: Everybody needs to learn “a little bit of physics, chemistry, mathematics and you got to learn some evolution. …
By Anthony Cody. In August, Louisiana teacher and investigative reporter Mercedes Schneider wrote about the dangers of having education journalism directly funded by the Gates Foundation. This morning, she followed up that post with another, pointing out that while it sounds benign to “focus on success,” this …
By Denisha Jones. As many parents prepare to send their child(ren) off to school this year they are hopeful that their children will return home each day with reports that they learned something new or made a new friend. Unfortunately for many parents their children will come home and report that they spent the …
By Anthony Cody. A new report from Marc Tucker is gaining some support for its supposedly new approach to holding schools accountable. But I am afraid his plan makes many of the mistakes that previous such systems have made. Here is the core of his proposal: Instead of testing all of our students every year with …
By John Thompson I twice supported Barack Obama for president. Throughout President Obama’s first term, I asked what we teachers might have done to provoke him so. Were his anti-teacher policies the avoidable result of teachers and unions being too slow to address conditions in Chicago schools? By now, it is …