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Where’s the Outrage Over Charter School Performance? by Gerald W. Bracey

By Dr. Bob Valiant, on May 28th, 2005%

Printed with permission of the author, Gerald W. Bracey

Near the end of the 1969 film, “Easy Rider,” Dennis Hopper extols all the fun and wonderful things he and biker buddy Peter Fonda have been able to accomplish with the cash from their big cocaine deal that begins the movie. Fonda looks at Hopper and . . . → Read More: Where’s the Outrage Over Charter School Performance? by Gerald W. Bracey

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There’s No Such Thing as a Free Breakfast by Juanita Doyon

By Dr. Bob Valiant, on August 22nd, 2003%

Submitted by Juanita Doyon

“You can test some of the children all of the time. You can test all of the children some of the time. But there just ain’t no Lake Woebegone, man!”

Things Abraham Lincoln would say if he were a teacher in the twenty-first century.

I had the privilege of attending a . . . → Read More: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Breakfast by Juanita Doyon

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A Teacher’s Manifesto by Dave Butts

By Dr. Bob Valiant, on June 10th, 2003%

I am lamenting the loss of diverse thought and the market place of free thought that once was the School District where I teach. About 15 years ago I was a 5th grade teacher. Most of us in the building belonged to one professional organization or another; PDK, ASCD etc. A common practice was for . . . → Read More: A Teacher’s Manifesto by Dave Butts

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Computers in Future Classrooms by Paul Abramson

By Dr. Bob Valiant, on May 15th, 2003%

Paul writes “Today I listened to a conversation between a computer “expert” and an architect concerning the future of computer use in the classroom. Both were agreed that within five years all students would be using hand held computers in the classroom, not laptops and certainly not desk models.

They may be right about the . . . → Read More: Computers in Future Classrooms by Paul Abramson

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Federal Control

By Dr. Bob Valiant, on February 12th, 2003%

Far from “raising the bar” as advocates like to claim, the federal push for accountability through high-stakes testing is leading to a narrowing of the curriculum, lowering of student motivation, increasing dropouts, and virtually no evidence of improvement (and some evidence of decline) on such national measures as the NAEP, SAT and ACT (See the . . . → Read More: Federal Control

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