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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 This blog is no longer being updated.
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Whose Voice Is Heard?
So how do we sort the policies and proposals, the reformsters and the shysters. How do we know if people work as true reformers and not simply colonizers.
The key question is simple: whose voice is being heard?
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Can Testing Fans Reboot?
I think the opt-out explosion suggests that more is needed than a tweaking. I'd like to suggest a reboot.
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Curmudgucation Digest (April 19)
Opting out is all the rage, except in Burbank, where rage is all the rage. Meanwhile, are we using the right drivers for education? All this and more, last week in Curmudgucation.
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Merryl Tisch Shows How Test Supporters Get It Wrong
Merryl Tisch can blame the opt out movement on the union and politics all she wants; the reality on the ground is that more and more parents have had enough. The BS Test boosters are going to need better talking points.
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Curmudgucation Digest (April 12)
Common Core fading, Andrew Cuomo evaluating, Jeb Bush running, Arne Duncan talking, and everybody taking a look at the Alexander-Murray ESEA rewrite.
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Curmudgucation Digest (April 5)
Equity, cage-busting, bad times for New York teachers, and more policy papers.
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Paying Your Debts & the Corinthian 100
The slow-motion train wreck that is the unspooling of the Corinthian for-profit college chain has just dumped one more car off the tracks. Students have announced that they will not repay the debt they incurred attending the nation's top contender for the Predatory College gold medal. While the group launched as a collective fifteen, they have now rounded themselves off at an even 100.
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Curmudgucation Digest (March 29)
Politics, testing, and a film worth watching today.
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Seniority and My Wife
From Students Matter to Campbell Brown, reformsters have been working to erode teacher job security and end the use of senoirity in furlough decisions. The current system, they say, is unfairly hurting great young teachers. I have some thoughts about gifted teachers at the beginning of their careers, because I'm married to one of them.
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Curmudgucation Digest (March 22)
Testing, testing, Pearson annoying people, Whitney Tilson, and failing publishers. Also, I use my imagination to search for reformy answers.
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Equity for Some
We have an equity problem in education in this country, and I'm not sure it's all that complicated-- we don't want to spend enough money to get the job done.
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Opt In and Think of England
As we enter testing opt-out season with its ever-increasing rising tide of test opposition, the fans of test-driven accountability have had to use every weapon in their arsenal to try to beat back the non-testing hordes who threaten modern educational progress (and corporate revenue streams). Now they've been reduced to using brute force and ridicule.
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Curmudgucation Digest (March 8)
Testing, belief, charters, economists pretending to understand education, early reading and David Brooks bloviation-- all this week at Curmudgucation.