Living in Dialogue
Anthony Cody spent 24 years working in Oakland schools, 18 of them as a science teacher at a high-needs middle school. A National Board-certified teacher, he now leads workshops with teachers on Project Based Learning. He is the co-founder of the Network for Public Education. With education at a crossroads, in this blog he invited you to join him in a dialogue on education reform and teaching for change and deep learning. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: education reform.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Jack Hassard: Test-Based Reform: What Values are we Adding?
Guest post by Jack Hassard. You can read Part One here.
Federal
Opinion
Jack Hassard: Test-Based Reform: Where is the Common Core Leading Us?
Guest post by Jack Hassard.
Part 1 of 2.
Part 1 of 2.
School & District Management
Opinion
Phil Kovacs Responds to the Latest Research on Teach For America
A few days ago, I ran a guest post authored by science educator Jack Hassard; Cobb County, Georgia, Rejects Teach For America. One cogent comment came from Stuart (EdOutsider), who wrote the following:
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Gerald Coles: The Growing Educational Achievement Gap: Don't Think What You Might Think You Should Think
Guest post by Gerald Coles
Last week the New York Times provided valuable, disturbing information by reporting recent research on the growing educational achievement gap between rich and poor students, which has grown substantially over the past few decades, even while the achievement gap between black and white students has narrowed. As the author of one study put it, "family income appears more determinative of educational success than race."
Last week the New York Times provided valuable, disturbing information by reporting recent research on the growing educational achievement gap between rich and poor students, which has grown substantially over the past few decades, even while the achievement gap between black and white students has narrowed. As the author of one study put it, "family income appears more determinative of educational success than race."
Assessment
Opinion
Sarah Puglisi: The Heart Shaped Box
Guest post by Sarah Puglisi.
Often I ask people what they think or remember of school.
Often I ask people what they think or remember of school.
School & District Management
Opinion
Jack Hassard Reports: Cobb County, Georgia, Rejects Teach For America
Guest post by Jack Hassard.
Cobb County, Georgia's second largest school district, decided not to consider the superintendent's request to hire 50 Teach for America (TFA) uncertified college graduates to work in under-performing schools in South Cobb. According to an editorial in the Marietta Daily Journal, Dr. Michael Hinojosa, the county's new superintendent (formerly superintendent of the Dallas ISD) had worked with the Atlanta office of the Teach for America program behind the scenes to bring the new teachers to the school district.
Cobb County, Georgia's second largest school district, decided not to consider the superintendent's request to hire 50 Teach for America (TFA) uncertified college graduates to work in under-performing schools in South Cobb. According to an editorial in the Marietta Daily Journal, Dr. Michael Hinojosa, the county's new superintendent (formerly superintendent of the Dallas ISD) had worked with the Atlanta office of the Teach for America program behind the scenes to bring the new teachers to the school district.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Kelly Flynn Tackles the Learning Problem that Dare Not Speak its Name
Guest post by Kelly Flynn.
It's an unspoken pact: teachers will not talk about the biggest roadblock to teaching and learning. They'll talk about all sorts of other things, things you've heard a million times before: that it's hard to teach a hungry child, a frightened child, or a sick child.
It's an unspoken pact: teachers will not talk about the biggest roadblock to teaching and learning. They'll talk about all sorts of other things, things you've heard a million times before: that it's hard to teach a hungry child, a frightened child, or a sick child.
School & District Management
Opinion
Jack Hassard: We Have Low Expectations for American Students in Math & Science
Guest post by Jack Hassard
Who the #@!% would make such a statement? Why would such a statement be made about America's youth?
Who the #@!% would make such a statement? Why would such a statement be made about America's youth?
School & District Management
Opinion
Katie Osgood: The Reform My Students Need
I have a pretty unique job. I work as a teacher on a child/adolescent inpatient unit at a psychiatric hospital in Chicago. My students come from all over Chicagoland and attend all types of schools: neighborhood, charter, turnaround, private, suburban, alternative, and sometimes no school at all. The vast majority of my students, however, come from low-income minority neighborhoods. My job allows me a rare birds-eye view of the educational landscape here in Chicago.
School & District Management
Opinion
John Kuhn: America, Stop Making Excuses for Inequality
Guest post by John Kuhn.
Part Two of two.
Part Two of two.