On close reading, part 2
What is close reading? As I said in my previous blog post, whatever it is, it differs from a personal …
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What, exactly, is close reading of the text?
Readers of the blog no doubt know that the title of this post refers to the general discussions taking place …
20 years later: the immorality of test security, revisited
The title of this post refers to the title of an article I wrote twenty years ago: The Immorality of Test …
The Common Core Standards: a Defense
Tis the season to bash the Common Core – to the point of some over the top heated rhetoric. Let’s …
Beginnings, and their educational importance
“You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young …
The break-things-into-bits mistake we have been making in education for centuries – happening today with standards
In the just-released Math Publisher’s Criteria document on the Common Core Standards, the authors say this about (bad) curricular decision-making: …
Dereliction of duty by HS teachers
From a recent Ed Week article: A survey by ACT finds that 89 percent of high school teachers report their …
My 100th post. So why not bash algebra?
Hard for me to believe, but this is my 100th blog post. That’s the equivalent of a 300 page book …
The Standards and creativity – compatible
Why do people insist on viewing the Standards as inconsistent with teacher creativity and choice? I am baffled by …
Guest post: more on strategy and tactics in teaching (in this case, English)
While I am out in the sunshine playing hooky after this long winter, Adam Fachler, a fine teacher in New …
