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Listening to a Teacher from a "No Excuses" Charter School

Listening to a Teacher from a "No Excuses" Charter School

Maxine Greene and the "Frozen Sea Inside of Us"

Maxine Greene and the "Frozen Sea Inside of Us"

Death to Common Core! Long Live Failed Education Policy!

Death to Common Core! Long Live Failed Education Policy!

Insurance and the Common Good

Insurance and the Common Good

Education in Black and White: Beware the Roadbuilders

Education in Black and White: Beware the Roadbuilders

Kindness as Antidote to Fatalism of "Grit"

Kindness as Antidote to Fatalism of "Grit"

Invoking "Oliver Rule (Expanded)" for Education Reform Debate

Invoking "Oliver Rule (Expanded)" for Education Reform Debate

Maxine Greene, Released to a New Landscape

Maxine Greene, Released to a New Landscape

Endgame: Disaster Capitalism, New Orleans, and the Charter Scam

Endgame: Disaster Capitalism, New Orleans, and the Charter Scam

In the U.S., Where the Female Nipple Is More Dangerous Than a Gun

In the U.S., Where the Female Nipple Is More Dangerous Than a Gun

SC, Choose OK, Not FL: Failing Students with Failed Policy

SC, Choose OK, Not FL: Failing Students with Failed Policy

If The Onion Gets It ... : "when the mist distorts the outline of the cypress trees"

If The Onion Gets It ... : "when the mist distorts the outline of the cypress trees"

What's Really Wrong with Advanced Placement Courses and College Board?

What's Really Wrong with Advanced Placement Courses and College Board?

Misreading the Never-Ending Drop-Out "Crisis"

Misreading the Never-Ending Drop-Out "Crisis"

REVIEW: An Untamed State, Roxane Gay

REVIEW: An Untamed State, Roxane Gay

Segregation not about Proximity, but Equity

Segregation not about Proximity, but Equity

RECOMMENDED: Vonnegut's Graduation Speeches and Drawings

RECOMMENDED: Vonnegut's Graduation Speeches and Drawings

Post-apocalyptic Mindset in a Civilized World

Post-apocalyptic Mindset in a Civilized World

Free Reading Redux

Free Reading Redux

Autonomy Must Precede Accountability

Autonomy Must Precede Accountability

Racial segregation returns to US schools, 60 years after the Supreme Court banned

Racial segregation returns to US schools, 60 years after the Supreme Court banned it

My Speech to the Graduates: Don't Listen to Graduation Speakers

My Speech to the Graduates: Don't Listen to Graduation Speakers

On Foma and Mendacity: Letting the Cat Out of the Bag

On Foma and Mendacity: Letting the Cat Out of the Bag

Once Again, NAEP? Nope: "states and schools have lied about the rigor of their courses"

Once Again, NAEP? Nope: "states and schools have lied about the rigor of their courses"

PISA Brainwashing: Measure, Rank, Repeat

PISA Brainwashing: Measure, Rank, Repeat

If This Is Teacher Appreciation, I'm Glad It Is Only a Week

If This Is Teacher Appreciation, I'm Glad It Is Only a Week

Consumed by the Digital Divide

Consumed by the Digital Divide

Celebrities, Thank You, But…

Celebrities, Thank You, But…

Token Outrage and "Oafish" Racists

Token Outrage and "Oafish" Racists

Welcome to SC: A Heaping Stumbling-Bumbling Mess of Ineptitude

Welcome to SC: A Heaping Stumbling-Bumbling Mess of Ineptitude

Revisiting James Baldwin's "Black English"

Revisiting James Baldwin's "Black English"

More on Two Americas

More on Two Americas 

Where Is Outrage for Systemic Racism?

Where Is Outrage for Systemic Racism?

Teacher Quality: On Hyperbole and Anecdotes

Teacher Quality: On Hyperbole and Anecdotes

What do College Professors Want from Incoming High School Graduates?

What do College Professors Want from Incoming High School Graduates?

CALL for Chapter Proposals: Adaptation as Investigations: Critically Rethinking Medium, Genre, and Text

CALL for Chapter Proposals: Adaptation as Investigations: Critically Rethinking Medium, Genre, and Text

Common Core Movement Never about Teaching and Learning, Always about Testing

Common Core Movement Never about Teaching and Learning, Always about Testing

Standards May Achieve Equality, But Not Equity

Standards May Achieve Equality, But Not Equity

No Country for Young Children of Color

No Country for Young Children of Color

REVIEW: Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems, James Baldwin

REVIEW: Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems, James Baldwin

Legalizing Marijuana Offers Lesson for Changing Course in Education Reform

Legalizing Marijuana Offers Lesson for Changing Course in Education Reform

Two Americas: George W. Bush and Neil deGrasse Tyson

Two Americas: George W. Bush and Neil deGrasse Tyson

Paternalism, Old or New, Blinds

Paternalism, Old or New, Blinds

"There's a Muslim in America Named Muhammad Ali"

"There's a Muslim in America Named Muhammad Ali"

Pat Tillman (11/6/76 - 4/22/04): A Decade of Forgetting

Pat Tillman (11/6/76 - 4/22/04): A Decade of Forgetting

The Paradox of Race in the U.S.

The Paradox of Race in the U.S.

Devaluing Teachers in the Age of Value-Added

Devaluing Teachers in the Age of Value-Added

In Defense of Poetry: "Oh My Heart"

In Defense of Poetry: "Oh My Heart"

Skepticism or Cynicism for Obama Education Agenda?

Skepticism or Cynicism for Obama Education Agenda?

National Poetry Month: "What is the message when some children are not represented in those books…

National Poetry Month: "What is the message when some children are not represented in those books…

On Children and Childhood

On Children and Childhood

Unions? We Don't Need No Stinking Unions

Unions? We Don't Need No Stinking Unions

College Athletes' Academic Cheating a Harbinger of a Failed System

College Athletes' Academic Cheating a Harbinger of a Failed System

The Conversation: Relaxing zero tolerance in schools could be Obama’s boldest civil rights reform

The Conversation: Relaxing zero tolerance in schools could be Obama’s boldest civil rights reform

Reclaiming "No Excuses": A Reader

Reclaiming "No Excuses": A Reader

Snow Blind: "Trapped in the Amber of This Moment"

Snow Blind: "Trapped in the Amber of This Moment"

Are We (Finally) Ready to Face Teacher Education's Race Problem?

Are We (Finally) Ready to Face Teacher Education's Race Problem?

Conditions v. Outcomes: More on What's Wrong with Teacher Education (and Accountability)? pt. 2

Conditions v. Outcomes: More on What's Wrong with Teacher Education (and Accountability)? pt. 2

"Grit": Demanding Superhuman from African Americans, Impoverished

"Grit": Demanding Superhuman from African Americans, Impoverished

The Politics of Misinformation in Education Reform

The Politics of Misinformation in Education Reform

Talk about the Passion

Talk about the Passion

What's Wrong with Teacher Education?

What's Wrong with Teacher Education? 

From Baldwin to Coates: Denying Racism, Ignoring Evidence

From Baldwin to Coates: Denying Racism, Ignoring Evidence

Reading Out of Context: "But there was something missing," Walter Dean Myers

Reading Out of Context: "But there was something missing," Walter Dean Myers

Shiny Happy People: NPR, "Grit," and "Myths that Deform" pt. 2

Shiny Happy People: NPR, "Grit," and "Myths that Deform" pt. 2

NPR Whitewashes "Grit" Narrative

NPR Whitewashes "Grit" Narrative 

The Self-Defeating South, Words Not Spoken: Racism as a Scar and Cancer

The Self-Defeating South, Words Not Spoken: Racism as a Scar and Cancer

Beyond "Doubly Disadvantaged": Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Schools and Society

Beyond "Doubly Disadvantaged": Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Schools and Society

Segregation and Charter Schools: A Reader

Segregation and Charter Schools: A Reader

Revisiting "Cliches and Abstractions" in the Context of Race, 2014

Revisiting "Cliches and Abstractions" in the Context of Race, 2014

Writing Is a Journey: Thoughts on Writing, College, and the SAT

Writing Is a Journey: Thoughts on Writing, College, and the SAT

American Hustle: Ignoring Poverty in U.S. Needs More than 50-Year Anniversary

American Hustle: Ignoring Poverty in U.S. Needs More than 50-Year Anniversary

Teaching Students, Missionary Zeal, and the Cult of Personality

Teaching Students, Missionary Zeal, and the Cult of Personality

SAT Reboot 2016: "Nonsense It All Is"

SAT Reboot 2016: "Nonsense It All Is"

David Coleman's Latest Khan

David Coleman's Latest Kohn

REVIEW: eleanor & park

REVIEW: eleanor & park 

Thomas: Don’t link teacher pay to student test scores

Thomas: Don’t link teacher pay to student test scores

Moving ‘quality’ teachers between schools will not help disadvantaged children

Moving ‘quality’ teachers between schools will not help disadvantaged children

Common Core Costs Too High, Failure Guaranteed

Common Core Costs Too High, Failure Guaranteed

Ravitch, Lewis, and Kuhn at NPE

Ravitch, Lewis, and Kuhn at NPE

Critical Pedagogy or Core Knowledge?

Critical Pedagogy or Core Knowledge?

South Carolina and Common Core: A Next Step?

South Carolina and Common Core: A Next Step?

A Brief Meditation on Choice

A Brief Meditation on Choice 

"Hunting Scapegoats": WWII Literacy Crisis and Current Education Reform

"Hunting Scapegoats": WWII Literacy Crisis and Current Education Reform

True Detective: It's Still a Man's (Hostile) World, pt. 2

True Detective: It's Still a Man's (Hostile) World, pt. 2

Knowledge: Not If, but How (and Who Decides)

Knowledge: Not If, but How (and Who Decides)

Retain to Impede: When Reading Legislation Fails (Again)

Retain to Impede: When Reading Legislation Fails (Again)

Three Poems: For Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin

Three Poems: For Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin

Scholars Speak Out: On Leaders and Teacher Responsibility

Scholars Speak Out: On Leaders and Teacher Responsibility

The Analogy, Hyperbole Problem: "With explanation kind" (Tone, pt. 5)

The Analogy, Hyperbole Problem: "With explanation kind" (Tone, pt. 5)

Professors as Public Intellectuals: A Reader

Professors as Public Intellectuals: A Reader

The Mistrial of Jordan Davis: More Evidence Problems for Denying Racism

The Mistrial of Jordan Davis: More Evidence Problems for Denying Racism

Living and Learning in Perpetual Crisis

Living and Learning in Perpetual Crisis

No Excuses?: Giving Power a Pass

No Excuses?: Giving Power a Pass

Denying Racism Has an Evidence Problem

Denying Racism Has an Evidence Problem

Understanding Privilege (Slack) and Poverty (Scarcity) in a Snow Storm

Understanding Privilege (Slack) and Poverty (Scarcity) in a Snow Storm

Schools Matter: Standards as Political Footballs

Schools Matter: Standards as Political Footballs: In a piece published in a 2001 issue of English Journal , "Standards, Standards Everywhere, and Not a Spot to Think," I opened wi...

"What These Children Are Like": Rejecting Deficit Views of Poverty and Language

"What These Children Are Like": Rejecting Deficit Views of Poverty and Language

Core Questions: How Does Common Core Address Poverty?

Core Questions: How Does Common Core Address Poverty?

Progressivism and Whole Language: A Reader

Progressivism and Whole Language: A Reader

Recalling 1947 in 2014

Recalling 1947 in 2014

"What Is Wrong with Aiming for Basic"?

"What Is Wrong with Aiming for Basic"?

Worst Op-Ed of 2014, Already?

Worst Op-Ed of 2014, Already?

A Bill Gates Reader: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been

A Bill Gates Reader: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been

Teflon, Fatalism, and Accountability

Teflon, Fatalism, and Accountability

From Failing to Killing Writing: Computer-Based Grading

From Failing to Killing Writing: Computer-Based Grading

Testing capitalism: Perpetuating privilege behind the masks of merit and objectivity

Testing capitalism: Perpetuating privilege behind the masks of merit and objectivity

Criticizing KIPP Critics

Criticizing KIPP Critics

New Criticism, Close Reading, and Failing Critical Literacy Again

New Criticism, Close Reading, and Failing Critical Literacy Again 

SC's Low Self-Esteem, Florida Addiction, and Education Policy

SC's Low Self-Esteem, Florida Addiction, and Education Policy 

A Critical Truce in the War between Traditionalists and Progressives

A Critical Truce in the War between Traditionalists and Progressives

The "Grit" Narrative, "Grit" Research, and Codes that Blind

The "Grit" Narrative, "Grit" Research, and Codes that Blind

SOTU 2014: Orwellian Educational Change under Obama Continues

SOTU 2014: Orwellian Educational Change under Obama Continues

What We Know (and Ignore) about Standards, Achievement, and Equity

What We Know (and Ignore) about Standards, Achievement, and Equity

The Same One Hour 10,000 Times Is Not 10,000 Hours: Behaviorism, Math, and Utter Failure

The Same One Hour 10,000 Times Is Not 10,000 Hours: Behaviorism, Math, and Utter Failure

Richard Sherman's GPA and "Thug" Label: The Codes that Blind

Richard Sherman's GPA and "Thug" Label: The Codes that Blind

If Fewer or No Tests, Then What?

If Fewer or No Tests, Then What?

On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff's Critique of Ravitch

On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff's Critique of Ravitch

Students Should Be Tested Less, Then Not at All

Students Should Be Tested Less, Then Not at All

Pulling a Greene: Why Advocacy and Market Forces Fail Education Reform [Redux]

Pulling a Greene: Why Advocacy and Market Forces Fail Education Reform [Redux]

Muscle Cramps, Evidence, and the Public Education Reform Debate

Muscle Cramps, Evidence, and the Public Education Reform Debate

Dream Deferred, MLK Day 2014: "This rigid refusal to look at ourselves"

Dream Deferred, MLK Day 2014: "This rigid refusal to look at ourselves"

Teacher Effect v. Measurable Teacher “Value”: Some Clarifications

Teacher Effect v. Measurable Teacher “Value”: Some Clarifications

Comparing CC Support with Evidence Against

Comparing CC Support with Evidence Against

Walking and Talking with Secretary Duncan

Walking and Talking with Secretary Duncan

The Triumph of Conscience, Martin Luther King Jr.

The Triumph of Conscience, Martin Luther King Jr.

Rethinking "Creative" in the Common Core Era: "Let's not tell them what to write"

Rethinking "Creative" in the Common Core Era: "Let's not tell them what to write"

Should Universities Reward Academics for Public Influence?

Should Universities Reward Academics for Public Influence?

Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War

Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War

Standards Won't Change Inequity: A Reader

Standards Won't Change Inequity: A Reader

Tone, pt. 4: Dystopian Fiction, Passion, and the Education Reform Debate

Tone, pt. 4: Dystopian Fiction, Passion, and the Education Reform Debate

Conditions of Teaching Are Conditions of Learning: On Students

Conditions of Teaching Are Conditions of Learning: On Students

Classroom Teaching Experience and Whose Voice Matters

Classroom Teaching Experience and Whose Voice Matters