The Tyranny Of Testing, Part 5, 2019
In the first four articles in this series (enter “testing tyranny 2019″ in the SMM homepage search bar) I explored …
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The Tyranny Of Testing: Part 1, 2019
At the end of May, 2013, I began what would turn into a four part series on the problem of …
Real Education: A Job For Parents
As I’ve often written, contemporary K12 education is all about adopting trendy fads, brilliant new ideas that, while utterly ignoring …
Process Vs. Learning
Regular readers know I am a critic of what contemporary education, K-12 and college, is fast becoming. Mandates of all …
Research Paper Doom
This is a topic to which I occasionally return: research papers. They are, for English teachers, one of the banes …
The Point Of Education
I often find, usually in breathless headlines, that public education is absolutely worthless. It’s broken! It’s child abuse! Teachers only care about …
The Tyranny Of Testing 2018, Part 3
In the first article of this series–The Tyranny of Testing 2018 Part 1, I explained the incredible amount of time lost to …
Fundamentally Transforming Education
With the advent of 2018, I thought I’d engage in a bit of a thought experiment. All dedicated teachers find …
Education: Problems And Solutions, Part 2–2017
In Education Problems and Solutions, Part 1–2017, I wrote about how laziness, warped expectations and the demand for “data” have harmed education. …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 4
In the first three installments of this series (available here, here and here), I explained some of the many negative effects of …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 3
In the first article of this series–Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 1–I explained the incredible amount of time lost to mandatory, …
Baltimore Schools: Inmates Running The Asylum
As regular readers know, I’ve been cataloguing the many failings of government in Baltimore. Crime rates, particularly violent crime rates, …
Grading The Graders?
Familiarity breeds contempt, or so the old aphorism goes. Virtually all Americans have had the benefit of a K-12 …
Mandatory Testing, Cowpokes and Inference
Gouverneur Morris, one of the founding fathers and a signer of the Constitution, once said that he was “constitutionally among …
