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I am reposting this excellent piece by AMY SKALICKY on Common Core. Please read:

Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) is mandated under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and it means your child has the right to a public education that is free and that emphasizes special education and related services that […]

Once in junior high, I asked Miss Casey (on whom, like most of the 7th grade boys, I had a crush) if teachers ever went to the bathroom. She laughed at my joke and I have tried to make other pretty women laugh ever since.

By the way, she told me that, yes, in fact, […]

“Run, run, as fast as you can. You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread Man.”

When Nathan recited this I realized in whose presence I’ve always been. Nathan is an autistic kindergartner who bolts from his class and shows up at my door wanting to play. I teach in an RSP classroom where we […]

Went to a UTLA rally Wednesday. I didn’t really want to be there but decided to go anyway. The chants were uninspiring: “We want a raise. We want a raise.” But as the crowd got thicker on the patch of Beaudry roped off for the rally, I found myself agreeing with much that was […]

Okay, THERE IS NO CRISIS IN EDUCATION

Gerald Bracey:

President Obama told the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, “8th graders have fallen to 9th place.” That statistic comes from the 2008 round of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. It’s true. But there were 45 nations in the study so being in […]

Whew, that is hard to say. Anyway, here is Chris Hedges on Sheldon Wolin: in classical totalitarianism politics trumps economics; in inverted totalitarianism economics trumps politics.  In classical totalitarianism power resides in a charismatic dictator; in inverted totalitarianism the invisibility of the corporate state.

Here are two great voices in the testing reform movement.  I saw them at a recent United Teacher’s of Los Angeles Event hosted.  Thanks to all the new friends I made there.