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Common Core Standards
I’ve worked directly and intimately with Common Core standards in a large urban school district. My problem with them isn’t that they exist, it’s how assessment occurs, and determining what test scores...
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A School is Always Teaching: What Deborah Brown Community School Taught One...
If you haven’t seen it yet, here is the news story about 7-year-old Tiana Parker. She’s a former student at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Deborah Brown Community School, whose father ultimately pulled her out...
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How Detroit Went Broke, According to the Detroit Free Press
Detroit’s mayors since 1950 The Detroit Free Press posted an excellent piece on why Detroit declared bankruptcy. It’s long as hell but well-written, well-researched, and as much as anyone...
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For my Racist and my White Supremacist Friends: Knot Tying
It’s always interesting to watch my friends and acquaintances who are racist and/or White supremacists (and I do have friends who are one or both), try to discuss the disproportionate rates of crime,...
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The Irony of a Nuisance: “Black Lives Matter” Protesters Stop Traffic on Dr....
A driver runs over “Black Lives Matter” protesters in Minneapolis Tomorrow in my class, we’ll spend part of the time discussing the irony of people who complain that protesters stopping traffic today...
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