by Heather MacCorkle | Sep 25, 2016 | Education, Learning, Politics
Diane Ravitch published a book in 2010 that every educator (teacher, administrator, and faculty support person) should read, called The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education. In it, she speaks of the...
by Heather MacCorkle | May 15, 2014 | Education, Learning, Politics, Teaching
Caution: Some of the tweets are rather radical. It’s still good to know what people are saying, though, so I will let the twitter widget remain. Tweets about “#CommonCore” // Related articles Is Common Core facing death by a thousand cuts? The...
by Heather MacCorkle | Jan 7, 2014 | Education, Learning, Politics, Teaching
In the post on standards-based grading, I asked a couple of questions at the end of the post. Basically, I was asking about the difference between learning and academic success. If you are new to education, you may have heard the term, “doing school” or...
