Cheating or not?
Cheating or not? As the school year ends and many of you have student papers due, here’s an ethical challenge …
Category Archives: General
The challenge of responding to off-the-mark comments
I have been thinking a lot lately about the challenge we face as educators when well-intentioned learners make incorrect, inscrutable, …
“I didn’t know they could think!”
“I didn’t know they could think!” an excited high school principal blurted out. The principal was reacting to what he …
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 …
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 …
