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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Beginning the School Year: Building a Strong Social and Emotional Foundation
Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: A Year at Mission Hill Chapter 2: Beginning the Year Dear readers, As you will see in chapter two of A Year at Mission Hill, at the beginning of the school year the teachers … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Gates, Common Core, Corporate Education Reform, Democracy, Dialogue with Teachers, Freedom to Learn: A Year At Mission Hill, Freedom to Teach, Measuring Effective Teaching, Measuring Student Engagement, Our Schools Are NOT Broken, Real World Education, Respect for Teachers, Uncategorized
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From the filmmakers of A Year at Mission Hill
Dear Bill and Melinda, We filmed this school because we think education does need to be reformed, but not the way the current version is trying to reform it. Instead of more tests and more standardization, we’d like to see … Continue reading
Skills go far beyond reading and mathematics
In response to Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: A Year at Mission Hill, chapter 1. Dear Bill and Melinda, This is the kind of school parents want for their children…a place where they can learn in an environment of … Continue reading
Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: A Year at Mission Hill
Dear readers, A Year at Mission Hill is an exciting 10-part video series that captures the stories of a single K-8 school community in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, MA (Note: since filming, the school has moved to Jamaica Plain). … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Gates, Class Size, Common Core, Common Core High Stakes Testing, Corporate Education Reform, Democracy, Freedom to Learn: A Year At Mission Hill, Freedom to Teach, Our Schools Are NOT Broken, Respect for Teachers, Schools are not broken, Teaching Profession, Trust, Uncategorized
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“What is the ranking of my child?”
Dear Bill and Melinda, “What is the ranking of my child?” This is a pretty common question that teachers get at parent-teacher conferences. It seems like a simple question that would result in a simple answer or number. And herein … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, Ranking Students
Tagged accountability, Assessment, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Corporate Reform, End High Stakes Testing, High Stakes Testing, NCLB, Race to the Top, Ranking Students, Students, teachers, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Here’s an idea, what if every school adopted a dual career and college readiness mandate?
Dear Bill, The Common Core’s emphasis on independent mastery of complex informational text puts weaker and learning disabled readers at a severe disadvantage. The Common Core also presumes that the information our students will need to analyze and interpret in … Continue reading
Posted in College and Career Ready, Common Core, Common Core High Stakes Testing, Common Core State Standards
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, CCSS, College and Career Ready, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Common Core Testing, Corporate Education Reform, ELA, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, NCLB, PARCC, RttT, SBAC, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia, Social Emotional Development, Standardized Testing, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Texas has already begun to catch-on. When will you?
Race to the Top? “We would be foolish and irresponsible to place our children’s future in the hands of unelected bureaucrats and special interest groups thousands of miles away in Washington.” – Governor Rick Perry Mr. and Mrs. Gates, As … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, Race to the Top
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Billionaires, End High Stakes Testing, Gates Foundation, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, Governor Rick Perry, High Stakes Testing, Race to the Top, Rick Perry, RttT, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Texas, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Every single one of my students “failed” the state test this past school year, and only 1 student passed in the entire 3rd grade at my school. Does this mean my colleagues and I are poor teachers?
Mr. and Mrs. Gates, “You can lead a horse to water, but cannot make him drink.” This old saying pretty much sums up the education profession. Teachers and other education professionals devote their lives to imparting knowledge to children day … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, Measuring Effective Teaching, Special Education, Standardized Testing
Tagged 3rd Grade Retention Policy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Corporate Education Reform, Deaf, Deafness, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, Special Education, The Bill and Melind, You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
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Testing just gives him another reason to call himself a failure.
Dear Bill and Melinda Gates, For 19 years, I have taught middle school students. About ten years ago, I created a program at our school to address our neediest students: those at risk of dropping out of school even though … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, Failing Students, High Stakes Testing
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Corporate Education Reform, End High Stakes Testing, Failing Children, Failing Students, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Risk Students, High Stakes Testing, NCLB, Race to the Top, RttT, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Principal: “The part of the story that has been kept from our public is that the cost of being ranked No. 1 are the 2,000 students who have been denied their high school diploma over one state math standard.”
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Gates, We have come to a very dangerous crossroad in our state of Washington, and perhaps in other states across the nation. We have non-educators writing educational policy in isolation. You have built a fortress and … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, End High Stakes Testing, End of Course Exams, High Stakes Testing
Tagged ACE's Connection, ACEs, At Risk Children, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Corporate Education Reform, Diplomas, Education Policies, Education Policy, End High Stakes Testing, End of Course Exams, EOCE, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, Graduation, High Stakes Testing, Jim Sporleder, Legislature, OSPI, Principals, School to Prison Pipeline, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Washington State
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Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates 