Bruce Baker is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers and is one of the nation’s leading experts on school finance, public education policy and the factors that impact academic performance.
While all of his articles are in the “must read” category, the following three are particularly important to the debate surrounding standardized testing.
You can find Bruce Baker’s blog at – https://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com.
Here are the three ‘MUST READ” pieces;
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And more MUST READ end-of-the-year blogs from the nation's leading education bloggers
2014: The Year Teachers became Public Enemy #1 (A Teacher on Teaching)
Will 2015 Be the Year of the Student? (Sarah Lahm)
More MUST READ end-of-the-year blogs from the nation's leading education bloggers
LouisianaVoice 2014 year in review Part Dieu; it just gets weirder and weirder as we barrel with abandon into 2015 (Tom Aswell)
TOP 10 BAT BLOG SUBMISSIONS! (BATS)
Some MUST READ end-of-the-year blogs from the nation's leading education bloggers;
Happy New Year, 2015 (Diane Ravitch)
2014 in Quotes – (Stu Bloom)
Charter school won't open after lies discovered
The Democrat and Chronicle newspaper of Rochester, New York is reporting that the controversial Greater Works Charter School “will no longer open in Rochester in 2015, part of the continuing fallout over lies in the resume of its 22-year-old founder.”
Not only is the Common Core Standardized Testing Scheme unfair, discriminatory and fails to provide teachers and schools with usable information about individual student performance but the program is extraordinarily expensive and will leave schools that are already inadequately funded with even less of the resources needed to provide every child with the comprehensive, quality education that they need and deserve.
From Diane Ravitch's blog;
TIME Magazine has a cover story called "Rotten Apples," in which it falsely asserts (on the cover) that "It's Nearly Impossible to Fire a Bad Teacher. Some Tech Millionaires May Have Found a Way to Change That." Here is a link to the cover and a petition denouncing this slander.
Our heart goes out to my hero Karen Lewis and all who love and admire her.
Having seen, first hand, the impact of this awful disease I pray that the Spirits guard and protect her.
She is already one of the greatest leaders of our age and her work is far from done.
Karen, we send you healing thoughts and await your return to lead us forward in the great battle to take back our public education system and our government.
Karen Lewis, the truth teller, said during the recent effort to further destroy Chicago’s school system;
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