Restraint or seclusion should not be used as routine school safety measures; that is, they should not be implemented except in situations where a child’s behavior poses imminent danger of serious … Read More
How School Reformers Try to Convince Us You Can Fly a Plane Without a Real Pilot
Spending time studying how to teach and how children learn has been replaced with fast-track programs that breed future workers. These people know little about children, but they follow the script. … Read More
Vocabulary Used to Sell Technology to Teachers and Parents
It's the use of only technology in education without qualified teachers that is the concern. It's "tech without teachers" and without public school buildings, a sense of community, student … Read More
Common Core Creator Slammed Reading Teachers for Having a Research Gap—How Ironic
Teachers have enough difficulties. Sometimes you find an article so full of hubris and irony it cannot be ignored. Several weeks ago, I criticized a series of reports about reading by journalist … Read More
What’s Behind the Chan Zuckerberg (CZI) Push for “Brain Science?”
It doesn’t matter how much trouble Mark Zuckerberg might appear to be in with Facebook, he and his wife still find time to mess with education and give elitist advice to teachers. Their latest … Read More