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Is the New SAT Worth Cheering About?

On March 14, 2014   /   ACT, college access, College Board, CWRA, David Coleman, founding documents, new SAT, NotYourFathersSchool, SAT writing test  

I want to believe that there are reasons to cheer on the new SAT as much as the next person, but I keep coming up with more questions than reasons to stand on my school roof and dance. I know that David Coleman, in all sincerity, sees […]

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Umbridging: Outsourcing and the Threat to the Heart of Schools

On March 10, 2014   /   educational inequity, Global Online Academy, Harry Potter, Khan Academy, MOOCs, new SAT, NotYourFathersSchool, Online School for Girls, outsourcing, Powerful Learning Practice, umbridge  

The other day I wrote here about outsourcing, the tendency in schools these days to hand over responsibility for a myriad of institutional tasks to third-party vendors whose efficiencies and expertise ostensibly make it easier, and maybe cheaper, for schools to let someone else do it. In […]

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On Outsourcing: Lunch, the New SAT, and Why We Need Independent Curriculum

On March 6, 2014   /   AP, assessment, College Board, curriculum, food service, Independent Curriculum Group, independent schools, new SAT, NotYourFathersSchool, outsourcing, SAT, standardized testing  

When I was a child at my father’s school, the barber, the dry-cleaner, and the linen truck were the primary outside service providers. I remember the happy day Pop inked the contract with a food service company, in one gesture removing his most vexatious operational burden. Pretty […]

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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.