Whos of Who-cester

  Super weird to me that the update includes this "look this curriculum is everywhere" civics law passed in 2018 student-led civic...

 ...is what the Trump administration has done to the Department of Education. From NPR : The official, who briefed reporters on the conditio...

The Boston Globe has an enormous, fearmongering article today on early literacy; I've posted it here as a PDF if you don't have an...

 Thomas Kane from Harvard University he's an economist "in the education policy debate, I have observed that there is one common st...

 And the presentation is posted here and if you're watching the video , this starts about 29 minutes in Curtin: notes the public release...

You can find his report here . Riley: said he'd take the year to meet with stakeholders does not replace strategic plan: road map that...

There's a memo here , but there's a PowerPoint presentation here, too, which I'll grab some charts from. Riley: get an overall ...

I tweeted this out this morning, but I thought it might be useful here. I kinda loathe talking about NAEP , but let's talk about NAE...

...which they've titled "Putting Students at the Center of Reform" liveblogging once it starts at 8:30 Note: the report they...

The agenda is here . I'll update this post with notes on opening remarks once we've started. Updating as we go!

You can find the agenda here.   I'll post as there is reason to, and also I'm livetweeting here . And sure enough, the charter su...

"this room is living testimony to the value of persistence" "the miracles that we ask schools to work with children every da...

...you should ( I know, I say this all of the time ) go read Bruce Baker . And Jim Horn points out that the years previous to NCLB always m...

You may have heard that New York, one of the first states to shift their testing to something (possibly) more reflective of the Common Core,...

From this month's Mother Jones  comes two items that need to be read, shared, discussed, and passed on. First, reporter Kristina Rizga...

I refer to the Mass Teachers Association bumper stickers that say "Massachusetts Students are Number 1 THREE YEARS IN A ROW!" Wel...

I thought that maybe we were going to manage to avoid the Waiting for Superman insanity, but, alas, it appears that thanks to the Research ...

If the fear-mongers can scare you sufficiently (how many times have you heard the phrase "failing schools" in the past five yea...

While Massachusetts students top the nation in math scores in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the New York Times points...