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Peter Greene

@palan57

2 years

@jasminexETH I believe this chart is an accurate depiction of what you would see on your screen if you gave your cable company $79 a month.

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@palan57

3 years

You want to talk about learning loss? Then talk about all the learning lost to high stakes testing. 1/

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@palan57

2 years

@SecCardona That's not education. Public education is not meant to serve the needs of employers, but the needs of students. Yes, students probably need a job. But a job training system is meager and narrow. Our children should aspire to more than being useful meat widgets.

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@palan57

2 years

The "litter boxes in schools" story is the most basic litmus test. Anyone repeating that is a liar. There is no rational "well, maybe" wiggle room. That's someone telling a lie in hopes of whipping up their base.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

2 years

$28 trillion! Why not $280 trillion? 143 quadzillion? We're just going to keep making up bigger and bigger numbers!

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@palan57

1 year

@BillGottlin @DudespostingWs How about an employee who says, "I don't want to be hired by a company that is only hiring me for the work I'll do."

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

Want to address learning loss? Never mind tutoring and summer school. In most schools. you could add 6-10 weeks of instruction just by completely scrapping the Big Standardized Test. 4/

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

Not just the test itself, but the time spent in test prep and just plain learning how to take that kind of test and speak the test manufacturers' language. Plus the pre-test tests (to see how well we're on track for the test) 2/

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@palan57

3 years

People who have not been in the classroom for the last couple of decades have no idea how much education time has been eroded by high stakes testing. 3/

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

The sheer volume pieces by actual teachers and administrators about the uselessness of testing and the gross distortion of "Learning Loss" into a marketing tool is becoming pretty staggering. And yet, once again, teacher voices are ignored.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

How cool would it be if some of the people determined to protect children from "discomfort" and naked pictures and naughty words employed that same zeal to protect children from the effects of poverty, hunger, and illness.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

1 year

So today my boys' school ran a program that they hadn't informed me of or checked out with me ahead of time. So when I picked the boys up, I asked them about it and they talked to me and now they are eating a snack and everyone is fine. It's so easy.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

2 years

Teachers: "Oh, you want *accelerated* learning! Sure. I've had secret of learning more stuff faster in my filing cabinet all these years. I just didn't think anybody wanted it, and it would have made my job too easy."

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Peter Greene

@palan57

6 years

The teacher walkouts have already been going on for the last decade-- we've just been calling them a "teacher shortage"

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@palan57

3 years

It's a Kafkaesque bad office joke--let's make people spend more time drawing up reports on how the job is going so that they spend less and less time actually doing the job. 6/

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@palan57

3 years

And it wouldn't cost the taxpayers a cent. But it would make test manufacturers and the Data Gods sad. "But we need the data to address the problem," say testocrats. 5/

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Peter Greene

@palan57

2 years

Some education critics remain convinced that entrepreneurs know something about how to educate students well on the cheap that has somehow escaped everyone working in education.

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@palan57

4 years

Find me a parent or teacher saying, "Thank goodness for giving those tests. Otherwise I would have no idea how my students are doing."

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@palan57

3 years

Over and over again, single-issue school board candidates learn that actually running a school district involves all sorts of mundane nuts and bolts issues and that their righteous crusade is only a small sliver of the work they're elected to do.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

1 year

"Moms for Liberty started with three Florida moms upset with COVID-19 restrictions in 2021" Not exactly. Started by political operatives who had already been attacking public ed since 2015. @AliSwenson @AP

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@GeneBryant2

1 year

Moms for Liberty, a group that has sought to take over school boards in multiple states, is looking to expand those efforts across the country and to other education posts in 2024 and beyond.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

1 year

@kaiserfarmer @EdKrassen If you don't want your child to read it, fine. But when you demand it be removed so that no child can read it, we can quibble over the term "banned," but what gives you the right to make that decision for other parents?

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

"What the hell is wrong with me that I can't get my work done from Monday to Friday?" asks a teacher after spending another weekend mostly on school work. Nothing. Nothing is wrong with you. It's the job in its current form.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

And test data isn't any good at improving teacher evaluation, either. 8/

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

It seems pretty simple. If the mayor of Chicago was really concerned about the students and the support they need from teachers, she would not have cut off teachers' ability to communicate with children.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

1 year

In other words, if what you know about school is based on direct experience and not what you hear from the media...

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@matt_barnum

1 year

NEW: The conventional wisdom is that parents have grown increasingly furious with public schools. But it's actually people without school-age children who are particularly skeptical of public schools, multiple surveys show.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

Now is the perfect time for administrators to show "We're all on the same team" and "Classrooms are the most important part of school" by getting out of their offices and filling those empty substitute spots.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

Note also that we have the research telling us the data collected doesn't help improve test scores 7/

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

@soledadobrien @perdidostschool "War isn't supposed to happen to nice white folks--just those others..."

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Peter Greene

@palan57

2 years

Education funding in this country is a twin sheet trying to cover a king sized bed. Too many "reform" ideas are arguments about how, if we cut the sheet the right way and move the pieces around, we can cover the bed adequately.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

5 years

@BarackObama You know, those if us actually working in education tried and tried and tried and tried and tried to tell you. "Don't make excuses," you guys said. "Just expect more," you guys said.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

"Practice self care" sometimes comes way too close to "You'd better take care of yourself, because we sure aren't going to."

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@palan57

7 years

@CillizzaCNN Nope. She's there to function as a government official, not a daughter. If she wants to be just a daughter, get out of the WH

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

After teachers bust out the magical secret of accelerating learning (passed down for generations but always held in reserve), who will be giving the signal to slow learning back down to normal speed?

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Peter Greene

@palan57

8 years

I #loveteaching because public schools are the foundation of our democracy-- not a business growth opportunity for privatizers

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

Jeff Bezos wants to start a school for kids whose families are underpaid by people like Jeff Bezos by @AnandWrites

Jeff Bezos wants to start a school for kids whose families are underpaid by people like Jeff Bezos

A free crash course in why generosity is no substitute for justice

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Peter Greene

@palan57

2 years

@Olivia_Beavers You only need a majority if you want to govern; a small group can kick the board over. It takes hundreds of people to construct a building and keep it functioning, but one arsonist can turn it to ashes.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 months

One of the more persistent myths of education: If we just get every teacher to do X, then all students will learn Y. This is also one of the dumbest myths of education, but it is a freaking titanium cockroach.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

"Now that the pandemic is sort of easing up, let's put students in summer school" is the most "I don't actually know any teenagers" policy proposal ever.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

1 year

"Fund students, not systems" is just a more politically palatable way to say "Defund public schools"

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Peter Greene

@palan57

9 years

Can't buy a new car for $150? Not a car shortage. If you can't hire a teacher 4 poor wages & work conditions, that's not a teacher shortage

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

Just encountered a thread of literally hundreds of people raging over stores that have arrows telling which way to go in the aisles. Raging! Like this is the greatest injustice ever visited on humankind. What the hell is wrong with people?

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Peter Greene

@palan57

8 months

The noise around Science of Reading seems to have one other side effect-- an increase in Professional Development run by non-teachers and soaked in an implicit assumption that the teachers are all incompetents who don't know how to do their jobs.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

Twenty-six studies point to more play-based learning for young children

Play-based learning has the potential to reduce inequality, report finds

hechingerreport.org

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

The Washington Post: It looks like the beginning of the end of America’s obsession with student standardized tests. via @GoogleNews

Analysis | It looks like the beginning of the end of America’s obsession with student standardized...

Here are the trends.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

Class size matters

To Reduce Inequality in Our Education System, Reduce Class Sizes

New York City has a rare opportunity to pass a hugely popular bill to shrink class sizes. So why are the mayor and the City Council speaker standing in its way?

www.thenation.com

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Peter Greene

@palan57

7 years

@NRO @jimmykimmel @theodorekupfer Because this policy has real consequences for human beings' lives. Everybody gets to talk. (And health care experts didn't write this turd)

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@palan57

1 year

@mbcourtneyedd Policy makers should A) come cover teacher duties so that teacher have time to do one more damn thing and B) learn to write useful policy in plain language.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

6 years

Hey, @cnn . I was thinking I might consider running for President. I have some thoughts, some ideas. Can I have a free CNN town hall as a platform, too?

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

Dear parent: Even on my most powerful and moving days, my 45 minutes in a classroom did not erase or override your years with that child in your home.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

1 year

No policy that focuses on recruiting teachers and ignores retaining them is going to do a lick of good.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

"Jesus died for me, but I refuse to put on mask for you" is just a real hard sell.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

7 years

How i spent my day. My wife and our new twins

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

Want Schools Open In The Fall? Then Pay For It. via @forbes

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Peter Greene

@palan57

7 months

Research Shows What State Standardized Tests Actually Measure via @forbes

Research Shows What State Standardized Tests Actually Measure

A new paper sets out to determine whether a state’s big standardized test measures student learning, teacher effectiveness, or something else. Turns out the answer is "something else"

www.forbes.com

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Peter Greene

@palan57

9 months

Moms for Liberty is a re-branded lobbying group with underreported ties to Christian nationalism. Exceptional dot-connecting work by @jennycohn1

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

Judge Rejects Betsy DeVos Plan To Send Federal Funds To Private Schools via @forbes

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Peter Greene

@palan57

10 months

Even if we skip past the educational failure and rampant discrimination, states can't escape the fact that universal vouchers are fiscally irresponsible.

Peter Greene

@palan57

10 months

How Right-Wing Brainchild ‘Universal School Vouchers’ Blow Through State Budgets via @jeffbcdm

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Peter Greene

@palan57

1 month

Why Education Advocates Shouldn’t Get Behind Josh Shapiro as Harris’s Vice President

Although the Pennsylvania governor is effective in many areas, protecting public education isn’t one of them.

progressive.org

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Peter Greene

@palan57

7 years

Every time I read an edtech piece, I'm reminded that many (if not most) of the people who want to replace me with tech don't actually have any idea what I do.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

1 year

What many folks miss about Moms For Liberty is that these ladies did not embark on some new kind of mission in 2021, but were just rebranding work they'd already been doing for years. 1/

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Peter Greene

@palan57

6 years

@SimonMaloy What the hell, @CNN

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Peter Greene

@palan57

2 years

The College Board's unwillingness to take a principled stand on anything is by far the least surprising news this year.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

I cannot remember the last time I had so many "Here's a thing this state is doing to attack public education and teachers" tabs open and waiting to be written about.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

At the very least, it would be nice to have a secretary of education who did not take an adversarial stance toward public school teachers.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

@devjpow Academia too often favors words that build a wall around ideas instead of bridges to them.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

5 years

If the Waltons are that deeply concerned about the lives of poor folks, they could help by providing their workers with a living wage and health care benefits.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

Kansas City Star: Johnson County teacher’s message to parents: You can be angry, but we also can leave.

Johnson County teacher’s message to parents: You can be angry, but we also can leave

A video of her impassioned plea has thousands of views on social media.

www.kansascity.com

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 months

It's puzzling that the many of the same folks who say higher ed prices are out of control because of too much government subsidy also insist that vouchers that subsidize K12 private schools will not inflate private tuition.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

Reopening school buildings is just the latest version of how education policy leaders take "We can do this if we put in place the necessary supports and resources" and just truncate it to "We can do this."

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

Not linking to it, but just so you understand how focused some of these folks are on intimidating individual teachers--the Daily Wire took the Zinn pledge to teach the truth, sorted out all the teachers who signed, listed them by state and city, and published it.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

Call me skeptical, old-fashioned, or poor, but a conversation that started at my house with my 10 and 12 year olds saying "Hey, it's a snow day. Take us to Cancun!" would be a really short conversation.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

I see posting about difficulty of "teaching our way out of this" and the trickiness off politics in the classroom etc etc etc, but maybe we could start with something simple like Lying is bad

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

So many of these calls to ban books from school libraries seem predicated on the notion that teens routinely wander through libraries, grabbing books at random because they just want to read something, anything, and don't care what it is. Which is kind of hilarious.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

Unfortunately, it seems this is never going to get old. We Need To Stop Talking About The Teacher Shortage via @forbes

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@palan57

4 years

Joe Biden Made One Campaign Promise That Really Mattered To Teachers. He Just Broke It. via @forbes

Joe Biden Made One Campaign Promise That Really Mattered To Teachers. He Just Broke It.

“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”

www.forbes.com

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

@yoavgonen @WNYC Perhaps he means " a greater challenges than anyone I bothered to listen to foresaw"

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Peter Greene

@palan57

7 years

Why do reformers love the rugged chaos of parents choosing their schools, but hate the rugged chaos of voters choosing their school board.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

@sage_stage @offgridteacher That's the model. Teachers who don't stay don't organize, don't ask for raises, don't get costly benefits, don't get comfortable enough to get uppity.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

1 year

A 'new breed' of charter schools is spreading Christian nationalism — at taxpayers’ expense

Charges that public schools are subjecting children to leftwing indoctrination are proving to be mostly over-hyped or not at all based in fact. Yet, there’s evidence, according to a new report, that...

www.alternet.org

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Peter Greene

@palan57

10 months

Big losses for rght wing boards. Pennridge (the place that hired Hillsdale consultant) is flipped

Dems sweep seats in hotly contested school board races

At least one of the races drew national attention over policies involving school restrooms and library books.

www.wfmz.com

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

The Usuals: Experts say that it's safe to reopen school buildings once proper safety measures are in place. So what the hell are you waiting for? Teachers: For proper safety measures to be in place. How does this conversation end up treated as if it's super complicated?

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Peter Greene

@palan57

5 years

@rweingarten @JoeBiden Our North Star?? Really!!?! I thought he was the guy who sat quietly while a Dem administration pushed the privatization of public ed and shoved a set of bad standards and toxic testing down our collective throats.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

Some of the push to re-open schools will not come because of concerns about education, but because of the realization that children and parenting responsibilities stand in the way of getting those workers back on the line.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

One fun pandemic side-effect: Suddenly a whole lot of people who couldn't shut up about telling teachers exactly how to do their jobs are now just waving their hands vaguely and muttering, "This is hard. Go figure something out and just fix the closed school part, okay?"

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Peter Greene

@palan57

6 years

Do not let inspiring stories of people who beat the odds distract us from the necessary work of improving the odds.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

2 years

How the right wing media runs the game.

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2 years

1. Here’s how The New York Times is framing tonight’s Fetterman-Oz debate – it’s all about what Fetterman, not Oz, has to prove. This speaks to the major partisan asymmetry between the right-wing and mainstream media.

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Peter Greene

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6 years

Just so we're clear, and so we don't screw it up again---- NEA and AFT, please wait at least a couple more weeks before endorsing a Democratic Presidential candidate for 2020.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

9 months

This may be hard to read. At my school, the closing of the teenage mind is almost complete

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

Well, the annual Gates letter doesn't have anything in it about how they're going to fix education, so there's a bright spot for the year so far.

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@palan57

4 years

I remember when DeVos thought the feds had no business telling the states what to do. Boy, those were the days.

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@palan57

3 years

If media outlets would just figure out that NWEA is not some impartial research group, but a business that has a huge stake in the learning loss panic. It's like getting going to the American Tobacco Institute for research about health effects of smoking.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

The term "critical race theory" has given some folks the chance to pretend they're talking about philosophy and culture and policy when really, they just want to ban a bunch of books.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

"It's totally safe to go back in there; teachers are just trying to rob students of their rights," declare a bunch of people who have no intention of ever setting foot inside a school building.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

3 years

Kutztown 8th-grader creates Teen Banned Book Club

A Kutztown 8th grader created a Teen Banned Book Club at Firefly Bookstore in Kutztown to discuss both classic novels and current hot topics.

www.readingeagle.com

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 months

The story of ed reform is clearly and emphatically explaining problems in public education, and then aggressively advocating for policies that do not solve any of those problems.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

2 years

@Geir7994 @rickperlstein How odd to be a journalist who works with words, but does not believe that words have actual meanings.

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@palan57

5 years

I'm a white male. I am not under attack. My children are not under attack. I am not the foundation of civilization. Nobody is trying to erase me or my culture. Non white humans are not a threat to me. Anyone who says otherwise is full of shit.

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

Editorial: Standardized tests in a pandemic school year are folly

Every year, Pennsylvania kids face a battery of tests meant to determine just how well they have been educated in a variety of topics. All of the students from third grade through eighth grade take...

triblive.com

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Peter Greene

@palan57

5 years

Dear Teachers: Please Don't Make Your Lessons Relevant via @forbes

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Peter Greene

@palan57

4 years

If your narrative is that school shutdowns are caused strictly by teachers unions because teachers only went into the profession in hopes of getting paid to do nothing, you are being a dumbass. I can listen to/talk about just about any point of view, but this is just stupid.

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