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Posts Tagged with ‘Common Core’

  • Tests And Children: Accessories To Education

    14 Mar 2016

    Once upon a time a “test” assessed a student’s comprehension of a subject, or perhaps a student’s relative degree of…

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  • Standardized Tests Are The Tail Of Education: they never could wag this puppy, and they shouldn’t try

    08 Sep 2014

    As a young adult, which was by now many, many moons ago, I was drawn – goaded, really – into…

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  • Ratliff Is Not The Problem

    06 Mar 2014

    The new LAUSD district 6 school board (BOE) member, Mónica Ratliff, is being blamed – personally and explicitly and completely…

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  • TNSTAAFL

    10 Feb 2014

    There’s no such thing as a free lunch.  Which includes even that Apple on teacher’s desk. Our superintendent John Deasy,…

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  • Too Much Change, Too Fast: Leaving Everyone Behind

    27 Jan 2014

    As a parent I am overwhelmed by all the new education changes flying toward us, straight in the face:  ‘NEW! …

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  • Neighborhood Councils Should Scrutinize Neighborhood Schools, iPad Initiative

    23 Jan 2014

    When Mayor Villaraigosa made a grab for control of school affairs channeling the approach of his Big Apple-counterpart, we Angelenos…

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  • What’s In A Choice?

    16 Jan 2014

    “Choice” has to be the most loaded word in the English lexicon. “Loaded” in the sense that, when one person…

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  • The Road In Front Of The Schoolbus

    02 Jan 2014

    What’s ahead through the windshield of the 2014 LAUSD school bus? Certainly one must wonder front and center about the…

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  • Scarecrows Countering Common Core

    27 Nov 2013

    We seem to be caught up in a national hysteria that confuses association with cause.  Everywhere there is talk of…

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  • Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain

    19 Sep 2013

    On Tuesday the LATimes editorialized about “dysfunction” at the LA school board. They criticized the board for discussing the “minutiae”…

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