A blog about education by a math teacher
A loaded question that education reformers like to ponder is: Exactly how many students in the boroughs of New York City are trapped in failing schools? In November 2014 there was a report put out by Families For Excellent Schools Continue reading
At the height of my blogging, it was hard to keep up with the steady stream of stories about miracle schools, miracle districts, shoddy educational research, and shoddy models for school and teacher evaluation. But a few years ago I Continue reading
I know. If you re a regular reader of this blog, you get plenty of opportunities to read my writing for free. And maybe that s plenty for you, and a pretty good deal. But something you might not know is that Continue reading
I ve been teaching Math for 35 years. And if I were to only be able to give a few words of advice to a beginning Math teacher, I would tell them: Don t teach too much in one period. After all Continue reading
If you regularly read my blog, you ll be expecting a charter school takedown, a TFA rant, or some other education policy analysis. But I m doing something a bit different today, part theater review part confessional. So about a year ago Continue reading
A few days ago I saw in my feed the headline High-Poverty D.C. Charter School Students Outscore Wealthy Neighbors in Math. When I started blogging about 15 years ago, stories like this were very common and I would dig into Continue reading
One of the initiatives of former (and disgraced) Mayor Adams and of the former (and disgraced) Chancellor Banks was a math plan called NYC Solves. As part of this plan, all high school had to adopt an untested curriculum called Continue reading
Fifty years after the publication of her first book, ‘The Great School Wars’, author and historian Diane Ravtich has released her long awaited memoirs. In ‘An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else’ Ravitch takes Continue reading
It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina wiped out the New Orleans schools system causing it to be replaced with all charter schools. And it has been over 15 years since former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said, based Continue reading
According to the latest US News World Report high school rankings, a New York City KIPP High School is the 18th ranked high school in New York State. Strangely, a different New York City KIPP High School is ranked Continue reading