If you've found a recent post you like, and care about American education, check out a few of the older posts. I recommend beginning with "An Education Expert Goes to the Doctor" (click on the link below).
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2012/04/education-expert-goes-to-doctor.html
I think we need to realize that the big names in education reform today tend to be people who have done almost no teaching. Or: NO damn teaching at all. Any teacher with fifteen years or more of experience has already spent longer in the classroom than all nine U. S. Secretaries of Education combined.
You can throw in Michelle Rhee, the Wicked Witch of School Reform, for good measure. (If you don't know who Rhee is, and you care about this subject, you should.)
THE EXPERTS LIKE TO TELL US that we need to push and push and push for standardized tests. I'm not nearly so sure and have plenty to say on that matter. What happens, for example, if I bring fourteen combat veterans out to speak to 700 students at my old school? (I did.) It's not standardized education and what those veterans say can't be measured on any standardized test. So, is that kind of learning experience a waste in the minds of our great school reformers?
Or are they do far removed from the frontlines of education to even consider this question? See below:
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2011/05/sham-standards-governor-kasich-and.html
In the same context, of standardized testing, I think the true story of the profound stutterer is critically important:
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2011/07/yellow-brick-road-to-nowhere-teachers.html
What else can't be covered on standardized tests? The list is long. If you're interested in true learning it's terrifying:
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-teaching-matters-part-4-books.html
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-tribute-on-9-11-and-brief-note-on.html
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2012/02/where-in-world-is-ohio-curse-of.html
EDUCATION EXPERTS LOVE CHARTER SCHOOLS, TOO. (So do big corporate interests.) Can charter schools really save every child? Probably not:
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2011/11/vouchers-charter-schools-and-terrible.html
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2012/07/let-big-business-save-our-schools-and.html
Some charter schools are a joke:
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2012/07/lets-privatize-americas-public-schools.html
The whole concept--that America's public schools are failing, compared to Japan and Belgium and Finland--is wrong. So what if American students rank 25th in math!!!! What if the same kind of lists show American adults rank 24th in life expectancy? Are doctors and hospitals in this country really failing?
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2011/05/numbers-dont-lie-our-teachers-and.html
It gets worse! If you haven't heard, the U. S. economy is suffering because America's students aren't prepared to compete in a global economy. How well does this argument hold up if we're losing jobs to Bangladesh and not Finland? See below:
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2012/04/exxonmobil-announces-commitment-to.html
Many critics loved the movie Waiting for Superman. The movie bashes teachers. (Most experts in education today bash teachers.) What did producer Davis Guggenheim and what do the critics always miss?
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2011/05/fairy-tale-called-waiting-for-superman.html
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2011/11/rick-perry-wasumuhright-get-rid-of-u-s.html
I HAVE INCLUDED A NUMBER OF POSTS about what good teachers (of which there are many) really do. Here are two of my favorite examples:
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2011/10/say-wabbit-inherent-limits-of-merit-pay.html
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-teaching-matters-whats-square-root_07.html
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