Student activists, responding to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, organized a national walk out to memorialize murdered classmates, to protest gun violence, and to call for national action from elected officials.

A site to discuss better education for all. George Miller, Fake Liberal, DFER Favorite. Miller was the most powerful Congressional Democrat on education issues, and Nancy Pelosi follliwed his lead. Virginia Congressman Bobby Scott is now chair of the committee, and he too was on the DFER LIST. Join us as we speak out agai.

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice. The take-aways from this post are first, policies aimed at standardizing classroom practice increase variation in lessons, and, second, teachers are policymakers. Policies aimed at standardizing classroom practice seldom produce homogeneous lessons. Extensive variation after a policy demanding standardization? Cohen and Ball explain.

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The Connecticut SBAC scores will be released by the State Department of Education any day now. The scores will be low. Lastly, even though the Common Core has a low intellectual bar, most students will fail th.

Living and Learning in Poverty. Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Which was the first o.

Hoping that Hope is the cure not the cause.

Things I wish I knew before, during, and after college. College Freshman to Junior year. 1 Your GPA matters, sort of. In short, do your best and solid grades will follow.