Blog Profile / Schools Matter
| URL : | http://schoolsmatter.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Education / Education Industry News | |
| Posts on Regator: | 3413 | |
| Posts / Week: | 12.6 | |
| Archived Since: | March 4, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
We Have Moved!
NOTICE: On April 22, 2013, SM merged with @the chalkface. Find us at our new home: atthechalkface.com. All Schools Matter previous posts are archived there, but we will leave this site up, too, as a searchable archive. All new posts will appear at @thechalkface. Show More Summary
America Awakening to Refreshing New Possibility: Tell Bill Gates to Take His Money and Go to Hell
When the LA Times starts having doubts about the wisdom of His Aged Geekiness, Billy Gates, then you have to know the worm is turning quickly. After all, it was the LA Times that published Gates-approved teacher ratings that ended in the suicide of Rigoberto Ruelas in 2010. Show More Summary
Schools Matter and @thechalkface to Join Forces
Schools Matter will be moving to a new home in a few days. We will be partnering with @thechalkface to begin a renewed and re-fortified effort to eradicate high stake testing and corporate control from our public schools. Stay tuned for details.
New Orleans Shows the Limitations of "No Excuses" Schools
The debate over "No Excuses" schools has focused on their attrition rate and their potential for being scaled up. Schools such as New Orleans Sci Academy have produced great college acceptance rates for students who are dedicated enough...Show More Summary
Coverage of Opt Out's Occupy DOE 2.0
From Education Opportunity Network: _______________________ Occupy The Department Of Education Ushers In America’s Angry Spring No offense, but the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education building in Washington, DC is not a pretty sight. Show More Summary
Common core: An attempt to solve a problem that doesn't exist
No decline in readingSent to the Cincinnati EnquirerThe first line of “Common Core a ‘monumental shift’”(April 16, 2013) is not supported by any real data. There is no evidence that “reading has been declining in the nation’s schools for more than two decades.” Students are reading as much as ever. Show More Summary
Will the common core claim credit for bogus test score improvement?
Sent to the New York Daily News.We have been told that the new tests based on the common core will result in low scores (“Just what the kids need,” April 15). What has not been mentioned is that new tests typically result in low scores,...Show More Summary
Is there really a crisis in science and math education?
Sent to the Austin-American Statesman, April 16, 2013Lonny Stern’s claim that “Investment in science, math is good business” (April 15) is based on his assertion that there are 2.5 STEM jobs available for every unemployed person. Mr....Show More Summary
Duncan Celebrates Three Decades of Failed Testing and Accountability Policies
On April 16, it will have been 30 years since the publication of A Nation at Risk (ANAR), the discredited scare document produced by the Reaganites in 1983 to introduce the beginning of the end of public education in America. Now here is your quiz to test your capacity to predict outcomes based on past history. Show More Summary
Michelle Rhee's Situational Ethics
The immediate takeaway of "Michelle Rhee's Reign of Error" is that PBS's John Merrow found “the smoking gun,” or the confidential memo warning Michelle Rhee of the extent of cheating that may have occurred in Washington D.C. schoolsShow More Summary
Evaluations Based on Test Scores Goes to Court in Florida
Take heart, teachers. Be brave. Emulate your colleagues in Florida. Go to Court! By the way, Randi and Dennis, you could be using some of those high-priced AFT/NEA lawyers who protect your 400 thousand dollar benefit packages to help these teachers bring this craziness to a halt. Show More Summary
Tennessee Republicans Trade Local Control for Corporate Domination
If there's anything Tennessee conservatives hate more than minorities who refuse to serve as doormats, it is anything public that is not controlled by corporate overlords. Local control? Only if corporations make the "local" decisions. Show More Summary
Chicago Corporate Media Ignore Teachers' CORE Candidates
At this point in the U. S., there is one urban teachers' union that represents the social justice agenda of equal opportunity, quality public schools for all, and quality professional teaching before deal cutting and kowtowing to the Gates Foundation. Show More Summary
Exxon-Mobil Concerned with Teachers As Its Tar Sands Oil Spreads in Arkansas
If you are watching golf for the past 4 days, you would see hundreds of millions spent by Exxon-Mobil to push the Common Core Corporate Standards and to convince Americans there is some educational emergency in our schools. I guess I...Show More Summary
Former KIPP Principal Demonstrates Why Honesty Should Be Added to the KIPP Character Trait List
Former KIPP "stallion," Elliot Witney, has somehow earned a spot across from Deborah Meier at the Bridging Differences blog (surely thre's no Gates influence in that decision by Ed Week). And the first thing I noticed in reading Witney's...Show More Summary
Rhee’s “Gravy Train of Hypocrisy – @ the chalk face
Rhee’s “Gravy Train of Hypocrisy – @ the chalk face
The Profession That Left Gerald Conti
Gerald Gerald Conti’s retirement letterConti Letter
Michelle Rhee Is Done
All That Remains Chris Hayes interviews John Merrow below on the bombshell memo and the fallout, and below that is John Merrow's story: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Michelle Rhee’s Reign of Error by JOHN MERROW on 11. Show More Summary
Corporate Feeding Frenzy Continues in Fragmented Memphis Schools
When Bill Gates came to Memphis in 2009 with $90 million in handouts for every corrupt politician in the city and county, Memphis public schools were doomed. This outcome was further assured by successful campaign to "consolidate" county and city schools. Show More Summary
The New Republic Provides Wedding Details for Randi Weingarten and Bill Gates
To the 800,000 K12 teachers who are paying dues for AFT union support: Your union dues are not going to protect you and your students from the corporate onslaught by efficiency zealots, privateers, and proto-fascist ideologues. In fact,...Show More Summary