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We Have Moved! 23 Apr 2013 | 02:49 am
NOTICE: On April 22, 2013, SM merged with @the chalkface. Find us at our new home: atthechalkface.com. All Schools Matter previous posts are archived there, but we will leave this site up, too, as a s...
America Awakening to Refreshing New Possibility: Tell Bill Gates to Take His Money and Go to Hell 20 Apr 2013 | 03:32 am
When the LA Times starts having doubts about the wisdom of His Aged Geekiness, Billy Gates, then you have to know the worm is turning quickly. After all, it was the LA Times that published Gates-appr...
Schools Matter and @thechalkface to Join Forces 19 Apr 2013 | 08:19 pm
Schools Matter will be moving to a new home in a few days. We will be partnering with @thechalkface to begin a renewed and re-fortified effort to eradicate high stake testing and corporate control fr...
New Orleans Shows the Limitations of "No Excuses" Schools 18 Apr 2013 | 08:54 pm
The debate over "No Excuses" schools has focused on their attrition rate and their potential for being scaled up. Schools such as New Orleans Sci Academy have produced great college acceptance rates f...
Coverage of Opt Out's Occupy DOE 2.0 18 Apr 2013 | 07:24 pm
From Education Opportunity Network: _______________________ Occupy The Department Of Education Ushers In America’s Angry Spring No offense, but the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education buil...
Common core: An attempt to solve a problem that doesn't exist 17 Apr 2013 | 10:54 pm
No decline in reading Sent to the Cincinnati Enquirer The first line of “Common Core a ‘monumental shift’”(April 16, 2013) is not supported by any real data. There is no evidence that “reading has bee...
Will the common core claim credit for bogus test score improvement? 17 Apr 2013 | 08:15 pm
Sent to the New York Daily News. We have been told that the new tests based on the common core will result in low scores (“Just what the kids need,” April 15). What has not been mentioned is that new...
Is there really a crisis in science and math education? 17 Apr 2013 | 03:43 pm
Sent to the Austin-American Statesman, April 16, 2013 Lonny Stern’s claim that “Investment in science, math is good business” (April 15) is based on his assertion that there are 2.5 STEM jobs availab...
Duncan Celebrates Three Decades of Failed Testing and Accountability Policies 17 Apr 2013 | 12:06 am
On April 16, it will have been 30 years since the publication of A Nation at Risk (ANAR), the discredited scare document produced by the Reaganites in 1983 to introduce the beginning of the end of pub...
Michelle Rhee's Situational Ethics 16 Apr 2013 | 10:23 pm
The immediate takeaway of "Michelle Rhee's Reign of Error" is that PBS's John Merrow found “the smoking gun,” or the confidential memo warning Michelle Rhee of the extent of cheating that may have occ...
