The Patronizing of Parents and Teachers by the Concord Monitor Editor

(With permission to post on this web site) In reply to this: http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/13201820-95/editorial-myths-guiding-opposition-on-common-core Dear Editor: The recent Editorial by the Concord Monitor: Myths guiding opposition on Common Core, expresses...

How the Common Core Lost Teacher Support

Excerpt: The lying. Remember how supporters of the Core used to tell us all the time that these standards were written by teachers? All. The. Time. Do you know why they’ve stopped saying that? Because it’s not true, and at this point, most everybody knows...

AFT puts Sect. Arne Duncan on an “Improvement Plan”

The AFT put Duncan on a “Secretary of Education Improvement Plan.” If he doesn’t improve, having been treated fairly, asking him to resign. Don’t miss the comments from the rank and file teachers at the bottom....

Olszta: Manchester Got The Floor, Not Superior Standards

As originally published at:   http://www.girardatlarge.com/2014/07/olszta-manchester-got-floor-superior-standards The district spent tens of thousands of dollars and students lost over two thousand classroom hours of instruction, while teachers worked behind closed...