EduCon draws near and the calendar alarms go off. I am excited.
I still wonder how EduCon and other learning spaces can involve parents and children as deeply as they involve educators. Nevertheless, I’m happy to rejoin many friends in Philadelphia and I’m grateful for the opportunity to make new friends at EduCon.
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With thanks to Paul Allison for inspiring the title.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been woking with Christina Cantrill, Paul Oh, and
Dear Representative Goodlatte,
I write you as a Central Virginia educator and citizen of Waynesboro. Please sign the Miller-Van Hollen Dear Colleague letter in support of creating a 5% Title II set-aside for competitive grant programs to benefit crucial, national teacher professional development programs like the National Writing Project. I urge you both to support this [...]
While President Obam calls for more education spending in the 2012 federal budget, the deal reached last week to fund the rest of the 2010-11 budget cuts more money from the Department of Education.
With earmarks eliminated and the Department of Education losing money this year, it’s imperative that we convince members of Congress to legislate [...]
By week’s end, we will have either a federal budget or a shut down of federal government as Congress fights over the budget cuts to be made this year and next.
Perhaps the best thing we can do as members of the #blog4nwp community is to continue our determined efforts to educate Congress about the National [...]
If Race to the Top (RttT) is what we have, I understand why people want to join it. Sitting at the Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age conference yesterday, I was struck by how many panelists wanted a RttT for civics education. I understand where they’re coming from: civics education is not a required [...]
Beginning tomorrow, March 25th, 2011, there are 15 days left before our current continuing resolution on the federal budget expires and we’re faced with the possibility of a federal budget that zeros out funding for the National Writing Project.
We need to convince our government to save this cost-efficient, effective, and transformative program for lifting student [...]
It’s been a privilege and inspiration to watch the National Writing Project community really around the #blog4nwp campaign this weekend. Though this weekend’s push draws to a close, I look forward to following our work together via Twitter and other media throughout the rest of the budget season. I am genuinely heartened by our shared [...]
Now, that doesn’t mean testing is going to go away; there will be testing. But the point is, is that we need to refine how we’re assessing progress so that we can have accountability without rigidity — accountability that still encourages creativity inside the classroom, and empowers teachers and students and administrators.
- President Barack Obama [...]
Chad teaches humanities at a charter school and blogs on reforming classroom practice and democratic education.
