| National
Standards
for United States History |
Albert
Shanker: No Flowers |
Take Out Your No. 2 Pencils |
| Research
on Class Size |
US
Teacher Salaries
1997 |
The
Education Industry: The Corporate Takeover of Public Schools |
| Article on Vouchers from Our
Milwaukee Friends |
History of
Socialist and Communist Thought |
Materials
on the
Philosophy of Education |
| Center
for Dewey
Studies |
History/Social
Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers |
Schools
for
scandal |
| Democracy
and Education by Noam Chompsky |
Redrawing the Lines: The Case Against
Traditional Social Studies Instruction
by E. Wayne Ross |
Left at the
Altar: The Teachers' Union Merger and the Prospects of Education
Reform |
| UG!
Detroit Education |
Whole Schooling
Consortium |
Inclusive Community
and Democracy |
| Detroit
Public Schools Takeover Crisis |
State wants
tougher school accreditation |
"Tougher
Standards" vs. Better Education |
| Alfred
North Whitehead on Education |
Rescuing Our
Schools
from "Tougher Standards" |
National
school standards urged |
Coalition
plans drive for vouchers:
Amway
founder wants to provide choice of schools |
Daniel Fader
on Whole Schooling |
Standardized
Test Disaster In New York |
| Racist Tests
Create Academic Gap |
Teaching
About Vietnam |
Chicago's
Lockstep Curricula |
| Re-segregating
Schools By E. Wayne Ross |
Paul
Buhle on Shanker |
IRA Opposes
High Stakes Tests |
| MSU Study:
Charter Schools Nothing New |
Kindergarten
Race Gap |
|
| nea code of ethics |
test
mania in michigan |
Maxey
Training School |
| Charter
school funding Robs Public Schools |
Kids'
Health for Sale |
Clinton
loves them tests |
| The
Death of Alan Bloom |
NEA-AFT to Merge in Montana and Fla |
Pushback Movement Worries Ed Week
Bosses |
| Standardized
Testing IS Cheating |
Emperor's Clothes |
participatory action research |
| The I Search Paper |
The
I-Search Paper II |
From the
People who Brought Standards
Bogus
Opposition to Standards |
| Great Books (en
espanol) |
How
Do People Think and Learn?
Culture/Class
and Rationalism |
Alienation,
Exploitation, and Connected Citizenship
by E. Wayne Ross |
| Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum
of Work by Jean Anyon |
GETTING EVALUATION WRONG: The Case Against
Standardized Testing by Alfie Kohn |
A Declaration of Professional Conscience for
Teachers by Kenneth S. Goodman |
| Ken and Yetta Goodman's
Homepage |
Nicholas
LeMann on The Big Test: The SAT |
Frontline
WWW page
Secrets of
the SAT |
| A
Traditional Unit Plan |
A Loss
for Texas Students |
Against Standardized Tests: Harold
Berlak |
| New York
School Corruption |
Punished
by rewards? Alfie Kohn |
Norm Kunc, "In Spite of my
Disability" |
| Center for the
Anaylsis of Commercialism in Education |
The SCAM website |
Ms
Damon's (traditional/net)Social Studies Class |
| My Pedagogic Creed by John Dewey |
Newberry
And Caldecott Award Winners |
Oppose
High Stakes Standardized Tests! |
| Resisting Test
Mania by E. Wayne Ross |
Spectacle of Standards and Summits by E.
Wayne Ross |
C Wright Mills
On Textbooks |
| Glenn
Commission on Teaching Science and Math (2001) |
Teacher won't
administer CSAP tests |
NEA RA 2000
Summary by EIA |
| Canadian
Syllabus: Teaching Social Studies |
The Allegory
of Plato's Cave
Another
link
|
High-Stakes
Testing and Standardization: The Threat to Authenticity
by Kevin
D. Vinson, Rich Gibson, E. Wayne Ross |
| Social Studies Resources |
High-Voltage
Protest |
The
Eight Year Study on College Prep |
| The Dickens Project |
Charles
Dickens On Children |
March
2001 Fascist AFT Loves Fonics And Bush |
| Bread and
Butter Unionism Attacks Kids |
Cuban on Standardized Tests |
Center for the Analysis of
Commercialism in Education |
| Center for Education Research,
Analysis, and Innovation |
Disney---the
Boss |
Companies
Turn to Grades, and Employees Go to Court |
Robin Hood
Bold
Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood |
Ex-teacher
blasts focus on tests |
Teachers
lead Tijuana sit-in |
| Hawaii
Teachers Shut Down State |
AFT
Lobbies to Suspend Kids |
|
| High Stakes Tests to
Cost $7 Billion |
Another Conventional
Lesson Plan Outline |
Mass
Protests Against Big Tests
Education
Week May 2001 |
| Right
Answer, Wrong Score: Test Flaws Take Toll |
When
a Test Fails the Schools, Careers and Reputations Suffer |
New York
Times on Taylorism in Education |
| Howard
Kahane, a Founder of Critical Thinking in US, Dies |
Promises Made,
Promises Broken
by Patrick
Shannon |
Critical
Pedagogy, Political Agency, and the Pragmatics of Justice: The Case of
Lyotard by Peter McLaren |
| AZ Standards |
Paths of
Learning on Testing and Standards |
High
Stakes Testing:
A
collection of position statements and policy briefs from various
national organizations |
| Gerald Coles,
from
his forthcoming book Great Unmentionables: What National Reading
Reports
and Reading Legislation Don't Tell You |
How High
are High Stakes in Michigan? |
The WASL - "Washington
Assessment of Student Learning" (Education Revolt) |
| NY
Kids/Teachers Abused by 4th Grade Tests |
98 to 8
for the Testistos |
SchoolGrants: Grants
and Opportunities for K-12 Schools |
| NEA
To Support Non-Testing Measures |
San
Diego Columnist Calls for Back to Balance |
Mrs. Clinton Backs Giving Mayor Control of
New York Schools |
| Engler
Slashes 2001 School Funding |
American Society for Ethics in Education |
Navy
boss to run section of SDUSD |
| Louv column
on "Back to Balance Movement" series |
Obit
For Richard Cloward, Human Rights Fighter |
Patrick
Shannon on Marx and Literacy Education |
| Fighting
High Stakes Testing |
US
Teachers Work More For Less |
|
| The
Reading Debate: Has Phonics Won? |
Beware of
the Standards, Not Just the Tests |
Billy
Ayers: WeatherCop |
| Mismatch:
Historical Perspectives on Schools and Students Who Don't Fit Them |
Engler
Guts School Budget as Economy Crashes and War Begins |
Teachers
union president resigns over porn charges, gets $140,000 |
| DOES
“PURE” PHONEMIC AWARENESS TRAINING HAVE
AFFECT READING COMPREHENSION? by STEPHEN KRASHEN |
FIGHTING THE TESTS: A
Practical Guide to Rescuing Our Schools By ALFIE KOHN |
Lynne
Cheney Attacks Multiculturalism |
| Bob
Moses on Ed Reform |
Michael Apple on Ravitch |
Great Ann
Arbor Halloween Custom Wins Contest |
| Freedom Schooling from
the Boggs Center |
Dec 01: Judge Jails 49 Teachers in NJ |
6-13-01
-- Testing -- Education Week |
| NEA and
Chase Support Bush Education Package |
NEA Off Strike, Off Balance |
California
Reader Best Kids Books 2002 |
| An
Economic Recovery Will Tell in the Classroom |
Kids
as Fundraisers: Commodifying Schools |
AFT
Boosts Bush's Fascist Education Plan |
| New
GED (2002) Written by Taco Bell |
NEA
Won't Oppose Education Bill |
Philly
Schools Face Edison Takeover, and Mass Resistance |
| Vivian
Gussey Paley on Play and Learning |
How to Get
Control of Your Time and Your Life: Organize You! |
Colleges
Become Unaffordable To Poor |
| Bush
Signs Testing Bill: Kennedy Cheers |
Edison
Schools Perform Poorly Study Says |
Rose
Shapiro, Board Member During OceanHill Brownsville Dies |
| Bush,
Capital, and the Education Bill |
Bracey
in Washington Post on Failing Schools |
Burbak
Teachers Association on Standards, Big Tests, and the NRP |
| The Wandering of the
National Reading Panel: Kappan |
Harvard
Report on Resegregation of Schools |
LA
Mainstreams |
| Standard
And Poors Loves Oaklands Rich White Schools |
Ken
Goodman's Absurdity of the Month Jan 02 |
Michigan
Districts Face Deep Cuts |
| Enron
and Education |
White
Teaching Force Gets Whiter |
A
School That Fits Kids, not Vice Versa |
| Slaying
Homework, the Sacred Cow |
THE
HEGEMONY OF ACCOUNTABILITY IN SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES by Sandra
Mathison and E. Wayne Ross |
The
Fascist Edison Schools: Brave New Classrooms |
| Kid TV for
Sale |
Plagiarist
Historians |
Textbook
War in Moldova |
| Teachers
Spend Big on Supplies |
Rothstein
on Teaching History Beyond Mere Facts |
Gerry
Coles' Handcuffing Education |
| Web Page for E.
Wayne Ross |
Paul Robeson
Study Unit |
Is it
better to have a priest who molests your kids, or to have no
priest? |
| Trickster
Tales: References |
New
York State Tests Measure Class and Race |
High-stakes
Testing, Uncertainty, and Student Learning by Audrey. L. Amrein
& Dave Berliner |
| Plagarist
Historian Builds PR Campaign |
NEA's Note to Parents
on How to Get in an Orderly Line for the Big Tests |
Capital
Seizes Philly Schools: Edison Top Dog |
| Education
Funding Database |
Student
Fights SAT and Wins |
Edison
Fails the Big Test: Profitability |
| EDISON
SCHOOLS FLUNKS By CHRISTOPHER BYRON |
Students
Do Poorly on History Tests |
Gary
Nash on Failing the National History Tests |
| ASBJ On Improving
Teacher Ed |
Caps
on Class Size Slipping Away |
Malign
Neglect: NYC Schools by Jonathan Kozol |
| Criminal
NY Testers Censor Great Authors |
A
test scorer's story |
Anna Quindlen on Testing
and Censored Literature |
| A Student's Guide to SAT 9 Testing |
Teachers
in Sex Cases Just Shuffled Along |
Edison
Fails and Bails in Mt Clemens |
| National
Economics Standards (proposed) |
Standardized
tests ruled a failure |
Philly Students Fight "Edron" |
| Edison
May Go Under, Michigan Warns |
God
Outted From Pledge Chant |
Catholic
Schools are Segregated Schools |
| Court
Rules Rotten Schools are Legal |
Court
OK's Random Drug Tests |
Supreme Court: Public Must Support
Irrationalists' Schools |
| Dumbing
Textbooks For God and Profits |
"WHY
SO MANY EXAMS? A MARXIST RESPONSE" By Bertell Ollman |
NEA Builds Fascist Teaching |
| Unequal
Education and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor by
Samuel
Bowles |
Rothstein
on raising standards and cutting budgets |
Lynn
Stratton: Killing thinking in Florida |
| School
text debate: Just the facts or rewriting history? |
Ken
Goodman's Absurdity of the Month, August 2002 |
Edison's
Failing Grade |
| The History
of Education and Childhood |
Martin
Luther King on Education |
McGraw-Hill
Reports Profit Rise of 14% |
| Education
Quotes |
Neediest
Schools Receive Less Money |
RAPIDLY
RESEGREGATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS |
| Big
Tests Kill Summer--and Freedom |
Fear by
A.S. Neill, from Summerhill (p124) |
More
Tests and More Reporting for Michigan Districts in 2002 |
| 20,000
Kids Held in Grade: Baltimore's Shame |
Battleground:
How To Teach About Tyranny and Terror? |
Commercialism
in Education |
| Slap
Their Hands and Pray for Fonics: Ohanian |
What is history? |
NCES Data on Schools
2001--Quick Facts |
| Good
Cheats Go to Good Schools |
Teachers
Dig Deeper to Fill Gap in Supplies |
Mt
Clemens Dumps Edison |
| NYC
School Bosses Go On Piece Work |
Trelease
on Open court |
U.
Mich Study: Poor Kids Set Up to Fail Tests |
| U. Mich
Study: Poor Kids Set Up to Fail Tests--Article 2 |
Regulating
Reading:
Phedural Fonix |
TEACHERS
VS. BETTER SCHOOLS |
| PDK SATIRE on
Education and Testing |
School
Bosses as Thieves |
Edison
Boss Wants to Use Child Labor |
| Ohio
Irrationalists Push Mystical Creationism |
Harvard
Magazine on the Testing Trap |
Kindergarten
as Incarceration |
| Halt
Creative Teaching? An Exchange |
Summary
of "Schooling in Capitalist America" |
Two chapters
from
Schooling in Capitalist America
Chapter
3
Chapter
5 |
| Feds
Threaten States on Standards |
Bush
Brother Sells School Software |
Frederick
Taylor and the Cult of Efficiency in the Classroom |
| For-profit
U.S. schools sell off their textbooks |
NYC
Guts School
Budget by 215 Million |
Profile
of The Average Teacher |
| Leave
No Child Unrecruited |
Edison Crumbling |
Rich
vs Poor on Research Papers |
| ETS
Bogus Non-Profit Pays Off Its Bosses |
Cats
Paw For
Vouchers: Overstuffing Successful Schools |
Next
disaster in American education: Rising test scores |
| McGraw-Hill
Sued for Phony Data |
Ivan
Illich, RIP |
Ding Dong
the Case Is Dead |
| Case
to be Replaced |
AERA
Alert |
Chinese
Indoctrination in School, Like That in US |
Bush
To Privatize 850,000 Fed Jobs?
Racist
Last Hired Impact Soon |
Krashen:Exposing
False Claims About Reading Instruction |
"After the
Rain" by Elizabeth Bishop (1942) |
| Opting Out
(WSJ) |
NEA
Study on Big Tests: The Tests Fail the Kids |
Prevalence
of Autism Growing |
| Krashen
on Grammar and Diagramming |
Bush
Responds to Rising Tide of Testing Criticism |
BBC: US
Schools Recruit Scots for Hazardous Teaching |
| letter to
the NYTimes: Richard Allington on Teaching Grammar/Drill and Kill |
AFT to
Congress: One size, please... |
NEA BUYs
Report on Tests |
| Bloomberg
and
NYTimes Support Regimentation of NYC schools |
Bloomberg
Seizes NYC Schools, AFT Cheers |
Allington:
What I Have Learned About Effective Reading Instruction |
| History vs
Social Studies: 2003 |
Zinn: You
Cannot Be Neutral on a Moving Train |
50%
of Teachers
Quit in First Five Years |
| After
School Online Forum |
Oakland
School Boss/Thief Fired |
Sam Hixson
Shuts Down His School--Against the Oil War |
| Miami: Schools
as Markets, The Construction Boondoggle |
River
Rouge School Whistleblower Now a Target |
Livonia
Ties Administrator Pay to Racist Meap |
| Vygotsky and
the Zone of Proximal Development |
Worker's
Theatre As An Inquiry Process for Exploring Historical Social Issues OF
THE
THIRTIES: THE MASS RECITATION |
Black
Students Driven From Schools: The Expulsion Rates |
| Prof
Says: Meap Measures Zip Codes |
Sellout
Portland School Union Agrees to Huge Concessions |
California
Court Bans Bogus Pledge |
| 2000 School
District Demographic Data From NCES |
You
Can Fool A Sneetch: Oregon Teachers Ratify Sellout |
The
War on our Schools |
| National
Dismay with NCLB |
NCSS: Ten Thematic
Strands in Social Studies, All Grades |
SDCS & Title I Violations
|
| Spending
versus Academic Achievement OR Everything You Wanted To Know About
Schooling But Were Afraid To Ask |
Missing
on top campuses: the poor |
From
Chapter 2 of The Business Roundtable and
Systemic Reform: How Corporate-Engineered High Stakes Testing has
eliminated
community participation in the developing of educational goals and
policies. |
| Rod
Paige Joins the Drooling SnakeHandling Fundamentalists |
FairTest position statement on ESEA-NCLB
|
For One Small Education Company, Iraqi
Schools Are a Huge Challenge |
| Fed
Sanctions Target Poor Michigan Schools |
Kozol:
Ghetto Schools, and the Rich |
What
Some Much-Noted Data Really Showed About
Vouchers |
| History of American
Education WWW Project |
House
says religious groups can discriminate in federal programs |
Nation's
students still at risk |
| Mainstream
Unit on the Depression |
Segregation
returning to public education |
Voodoo
Education Gets Fed Backing |
| Parallels
Between NCLB and Invasion of Iraq |
States Cut Test Standards to Avoid
Sanctions |
|
| |
Bookcrossing.com
|
The Rod Paige Fraud in Houston |
Youth
Joblessness
at Highest Rates Ever
|
Curricula
battles way back in the USSR
|
The
Education
Family Says, "So Long, Kiddies"
|
Krashen on
False
Claims of National Reading Panel
|
|
Yatvin
Letter to NY Times on the National Reading Panel (August 2003)
|
| NYT Times
Column on Houston "miracle" 8/13/03 |
|
Reading
Between the Lines: The Big Tests and Fonix |
AP National Story on CEP High-Stakes
Testing Report
|
The Big Tests,
The US and Europe |
Florida Board Retreats On Class Size Ammendment
|
| Chester Finn vs The Social Studies |
Talibanization of Campus Life 2003 |
Michigan Schools Gutted of Everything But
Tests
|
|
|
|
| Double Whammy: Budget Cuts and Big Tests |
Michigan
School Choice
|
|
| Big Tests Untested for Accuracy |
Don't
inflate CTBS's meaning |
|
| Coke Aims at Schools--Via PTA |
McDonalds ReArms for Kiddie
Ads |
|
| Hegel and
Education |
Science and Technology Education As An
Unfunded Weapon
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Broad Foundation and the US Dept of Ed
|
40 % NYC Schools Fail |
ACT and SAT Scores at Odds
Alice in Testland
|
| Tony Whitson
Responds to Finn |
Kiddies, Not Burgers
Repeal NCLB
|
|
|
|
Utopian Project at Columbia |
| DEMOCRATS
DEFEND BUSH SCHOOL REFORM |
|
The Booroobin Sudbury
School - a centre of learning |
| THE CHALLENGES OF TEACHING SOCIAL
STUDIES METHODS TO PRESERVICE ELEMENTARY
TEACHERS (excerpt) |
TWO CT. TOWNS REJECT FEDERAL SCHOOL FUNDS |
Florida Teachers To Buy Edison Schools???
|
| Schools
drop naptime for testing preparation |
THE GREAT
ESCAPE: TEACHERS FLEE JOBS IN RECORD NUMBERS |
|
|
|
|
|
The Hubris of Nationalizing the Schools:
NCLB
|
Monty Neill article on NCLB in Kappan
|
|
|
Rich
Colleges Receiving Richest Share of U.S. Aid
|
Class Struggle 101 by Barbara Ehrenreich
|
| Some Parents Rebel Against Competitive Sport
Brutality |
|
|
|
|
|
The Houston Fraud Unravels |
| Larry Cuban: So Much High Tech Money So
Little Use |
|
Brits'
Teacher Union Abandons Exam Boycott: Teachers Support the Big Tests |
|
Education Firms See Money In Bush's
School-Boost Law |
Districts Begin to Resist NickleBee |
|
|
Fifty Years After Brown, Seperate and
Unequal
|
|
|
|
EduNazi Teacher Writes for LA Times: Jailer Can't
Understand Why the Prisoners Don't Like Her |
Walt Haney: Big Tests and Force outs |
|
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Thieves Fall Out Over NCLB |
|
|
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Padres Boss Moores Says College Not For All
|
|
|
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What's in the No
Child Left Behind Act? by Harold Berlak
|
Latest from the "Raise the Bar"
Testocracy Crowd |
|
|
|
|
NCLB
Resistance from the Right |
|
February 2004 Detroit News Attacks NCLB
|
|
| At Poor Schools, Time Stops on the
Library's Shelves |
New York's School Bosses Bailing Out in
Midst of Nepotism Scandal
|
|
Walmart Invades Public School Arena
|
From
Striking Thoughts
by Bruce Lee |
|
|
Atheist
Rips Up Supreme Court on Pledge |
|
|
HIGH
STAKES STANDARDIZED NORM-REFERENCED TESTING: Background Information &
Position Statement by Marc Pruyn
|
Sample Anti-Testing
Letter
|
Inhuman Powers and Terrible Things: The
Theory and Practice of Alienated Labor in Urban Schools By Kathleen
Kesson
|
|
|
Stressed
for Success? |
Giroux
Run Out of Penn State |
| Commodifying field trips |
|
|
| NEA Rankings
of the States 2003 and Estimates for 2004 |
Strange
Bedfellows: The Conservative and Neoliberal Coalition Behind High
Stakes Testing |
|
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The
Strange
Origin of the Pledge of Allegiance |
Alfie
Against Leviathan, against bogus standards--and Sizer Too! |
Two Education News Clip
Services
http://www.edweek.org/clips/
http://www.stateline.org/education/ |
The Importance of Community
in the High School Classroom--Penn State
University
Master's
Thesis
2001 |
Using Marx as
the Fountainhead in Secondary Social Studies Curriculum Organization: A
Rationale by Greg Queen |
| Marx
and Education by Barry Burke |
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