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Peter Greene, a veteran high school teacher and writer in Northwest Pennsylvania, authored the popular Curmudgucation blog and can be followed on Twitter at @palan57. The posts on this blog were exclusive to Education Week Teacher. This blog is no longer being updated.
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The Charleston Syllabus
In the wake of a truly terrible act of racism, the internet has birthed a powerful community and an invaluable resource.
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Curmudgucation Digest (June 21)
Touring some states, privatization, defending TFA, and trying to understand monsters-- plus, what the New York Times doesn't know about education!
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Mirage: 5 Reasons Nevada's New Choice Law Is Not Good News
Charter-choice fans are ecstatic. Nevada's GOP legislature has decided to go all in on a state-wide voucher program.It will not be awesome. Here are five reasons that Nevada's imagined future of choice-driven most excellent unicorn farming is just a mirage.
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Supply, Demand, Charters & AEI
Balancing the Equation: Supply and Demand in Tomorrow's School Choice Marketplaces offers a more nuanced view of a charter-choice landscape than the freemarket acolytes at AEI have presented in the past, but it still reads like an exercise in unicorn farming.
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The Summer Opportunity
It's time for the beginning of summer break. That means a time of opportunity for teachers, ranging from the personal to the professional. But the greater availability of teachers also means that summer is a time of opportunity for policy makers and education deep thinkers.
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Curmudgucation Digest (May 31)
Charters, data, oxymorons, writing, Wisconsin suckage, sad cybers, and more kerfluffling in New Jersey.
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Showing Up
Teaching is a relationship, and the first rule of relationships is that you have to show up. You cannot maintain a relationship through proxies, in absentia, on autopilot, or by wearing a big, thick mask. You have to be present. You have to be honest. You have to show up.
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Curmudgucation Digest (May 24)
Charter boosting in PA, discord in NJ, and poker for the rich and famous-ish in NY.
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Curmudgucation Digest (May 17)
Charter fraud, Arne speaks on Pre-K, testing, and the hot new Honesty Gap!
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The First Hurdle
Watching a roomful of students slog through Pennsylvania's algebra-flavored Big Standardized Test today, I'm reminded of one of the many flawed assumptions of test promoters.
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Curmudgucation Digest (May 10)
Teacher week, charter school week, and the continued push for the Big Standardized Test. Happy Mother's Day!
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Turning Around Is Hard (and Other Observations From the Federal Department of Obvious Conclusions)
The main question of the report is this: In 2009, the feds threw $3 billion dollars of stimulus money into School Improvement Grants in order to goose intervention models and generally get a bunch of failing schools to turn around. How did that turn out?
Answer: Not all that well.
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Curmudgucation Digest (May 3)
Traveling to the Network for Public Education convention in Chicago last weekend threw me off my weekly routine, but I still have select cuts for you from this week at Curmudgucation, from NPE reports to the problems of being a reformster booster and the disaster-in-the-remaking of NY teacher evaluations.