Ability Grouping
My post “Ability Grouping” is up at the Faculty Room. Go check it out, and while you’re there, read the other excellent posts.
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Shakespeare: To Teach or Not to Teach
I have seen an op-ed published in The Washington Post come across my Facebook feed two or three times now, so even though I knew I wouldn’t agree with it, I decided to read it. You can read the original article here: “Why I don’t want to assign Shakespeare anymore (even though he’s in the…
Learning for Life
This picture shows three special groups of students. In the frame in the upper left is my last group of advisees at the Weber School before I moved away from Georgia to Massachusetts. They took this picture of themselves at the Winter Formal and framed it for me as a going-away gift. These students graduated…
“Look What I’m Reading for Pleasure”
I have a student whom I just love (well, a lot of them, actually, but I’m going to focus on just the one today). I have taught her for three years. I teach in a small school, and sometimes that happens. When she was a ninth grader, she let me know she didn’t like to…
The Problem with Textbooks
One really interesting activity I did in my Curriculum Theory course last year was to analyze a curriculum artifact. My department doesn’t use textbooks, but I really wanted to analyze a textbook after reading Michael Apple’s 1985 article “The Culture and Commerce of the Textbook.” I highly recommend this article, by the way. I found…
Georgia’s CRCT Revisited
Georgia has decided to invalidate the scores on the social studies portion of the CRCT that more than 70% of the state’s students failed. However, the scores of the 40% of 8th graders who failed the math portion will stand.
What Would You Do With $300K?
In his recent editorial on the book banning lawsuit currently brewing in Miami-Dade schools, Leonard Pitts bemoans the school system’s waste of $300,000 on a lawsuit that the school board’s own lawyer said, according to Pitts, “violated the board’s own rules, not to mention multiple legal precedents.” In order to make his point, he asked…