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Archive for the Common Core Category

Complementarity, Not Competition: A Birthday Wish

On February 19, 2014   /   Common Core, dyslexia, independent schools, NotYourFathersSchool, public schools, teacher evaluation  

The school vaguely alluded to in the name of this blog was indeed my father’s school, and before that it was his father’s school. Today my father would have been 90, an age that I suspect he is happy never to have attained, as his final mid-80s […]

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Reflections on Standards, Grades, and Excuses

On December 14, 2013   /   Amada Torres, Andrew Niblock, Common Core, Council for Aid to Education, CWRA, grade inflation, grades, grading, Jonathan Martin, National Association of Independent Schools, New Tech Network, NotYourFathersSchool, St. Ann's School  

These are strange times for educational standards. First, there’s political polarization around the Common Core has everyone a swivet: Are they evil imposed from above, a federalist plot to undermine local control of schools? Or are they a Trojan horse for more testing and yet further reductions […]

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TRADITIONAL LANDS

I here affirm that the offices from which I work are situated on lands that have a very long and continuing history as a locus of residence, livelihood, traditional expression, and exchange by the Massachusett, Wampanoag, Abenaki, Mohawk, Wabanaki, Hohokam, O’odam, Salt River Pima, and Maricopa people. The servers for this website are situated on Ute and Goshute land. We make this acknowledgment to remind ourselves, our educational partners, and our friends of our shared obligation to acknowledge and work toward righting the inequities and injustices that have alienated indigenous peoples from the full occupation and utilization of these spaces.