Dear education official:
When a parent informs you that their child(ren) will not be participating in a standardized-test related activity, is the appropriate response to:
A) inform the parent that such is his or her right under Massachusetts’ ever evolving position on said right (or lack thereof);
In which Louisiana’s Nancy Drew gets her hands on those elusive ACT scores: an interview with Mercedes Schneider.
EduShyster: Let’s get right to the question that’s on all of our minds. Is that John White as handsome as he looks in his pictures?
Mercedes Schneider: Well, it depends on how you define handsome. I personally find honesty to be an attractive trait. . .
And some parents say *enough* to a district’s assessment craze…
If choice is the only choice is it still choice?
Lily Eskelsen Garcia is the new president of the NEA and she’s got something to say…
EduShyster: You recently met with President Obama. I’ll ask this first question on behalf of all of my readers: did you set him straight?
David Kirp says that teaching isn’t a business—and that makes a lot of people really mad…
Students in Salem, MA learn a hard lesson about class
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