Tag Archives: Tom Vander Ark

Are you an EduBlobber?

The “blob” wins according to Tom Vander Ark (@tvanderark). President Obama’s ESEA reauthorization blueprint gives all but the lowest-performing 5% of schools “a free pass” on fixing schools for our most under-served students.
What is the “blob?” Teachers’ unions? Teachers? Mediocre schools? Mediocre teachers? All of the above? The soft bigotry of low expectations?
As much as [...]

#EduThingsILike

The longer I teach and work for change within my system, the more I try to speak less and listen more in hope of becoming more effective at both.
I also love parallel structure and repetition in rhetoric, so it’s no surprise that this post from Tom Vander Ark (@tvanderark) caught my eye this morning.
I think [...]