#Red4Ed begins this Wednesday!

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On BEDS Day, Put the Testing to Bed!

BEDS Day is October 2nd this year… let’s put high stakes testing to bed! via Students, Not Scores!… Here’s the plan: Email YOUR State Senator and Assembly Member. ·        Not sure who that is? Click the links below. o   http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?sh=search o   http://www.nysenate.gov/senators Steps: 1. Write a brief message telling them that they represent YOU and you want the high stakes …

Dr. Megan Koschnick Presents on the Developmentally Inappropriate Common Core

Thanks to Jen Benson for passing this on.  A must view for every educator…

Courage Among Teachers

Have had this article sitting around for a week and didn’t want to let another day go by without posting it… Alfie Kohn wrote a great article for Education Week last week.  The article, titled “Encouraging Educator Courage” is about exactly what it’s title suggests. It pains me to say this, but professionals in our …

Arizona’s Brewer Thinks Citizens Are Fools

More from the Theater of the Absurd department… After sustained backlash against the implementation of the Common Core State Standards in Arizona, Governor Jan Brewer decided to change the name of the standards to “Arizona’s College and Career Ready Standards.” State Rep.Carl Seel, R-Phoenix, one of the foes, said he believes Brewer is trying to …