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Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Denies Education for Some Disabled Children.Gorsuch Then Misrepresents Why at a Senate Hearing...
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ABCs of LGBTQs by Kristi Jackson
While LGBT is still a popular term used to describe the queer community, it has grown to LGBTQQIP2SAA. For this reason, I will often simply use LGBT+ or LGBTQ+ in my writing as a way to be inclusive of...
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Decolonizing Through Dialogue: Authentic Teaching in the Age of Testing and...
Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/decolonizing-through-dialogue-authentic-teaching-in-the-age-of-testing-and-common-core/If you’re not careful, being a public...
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Because Educators Do As They're ToldBy: Justin S. WilliamsJustin S. WilliamsJustin Williams wrote this powerful post in reaction to this article...
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Why Should We Teach Critical Thinking? It Just Gets In The Way Of The...
As a government and history teacher, I have this pesky habit of learning from the past and relating it to current events. Lately, incidents such as the Spanish American War and the yellow journalism of...
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Standardized Testing Creates Captive Markets by Steven Singer
Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/08/standardized-testing-creates-captive-markets/It’s easy to do business when the customer is forced to buy.But is it fair, is it...
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Dept of Ed Hires Anti-Civil Rights Crusader to Protect Student’s Nonexistent...
Originally Published at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/dept-of-ed-hires-anti-civil-rights-crusader-to-protect-students-nonexistent-civil-rights/Candice Jackson is a victim of...
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Rahm Suspends Teacher For Fighting Injustice by Jake Jacobs
Originally posted at: https://truthagainstthemachine.com/index.php/2017/04/13/rahm-suspends-teacher-fighting-injustice/A day before spring break, Chicago teacher Sarah Chambers was fired without being...
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NCIS (No Classroom is Safe) by Patte Carter-Hevia
Last week a shooter walked into a school in San Bernardino, California. When it was over, three people (two adults and one child) were dead and two children were injured.Usually when there is a school...
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Corporal Punishment Does Not Belong in Our Profession by Dr. Michael Flanagan
Last year a videoof a five-year-old boy being paddled by Georgia school administrators went viral, renewing the debate about corporal punishment. Corporal punishmentisdefinedas “any time physical...
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Arne Duncan Designed Rahm Emanuel’s Latest Attack on Poor Students of Color...
Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/arne-duncan-designed-rahm-emanuels-latest-attack-on-poor-students-of-color/Sometimes an idea is just too stupid to keep it all...
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The Ones We lose by Cheryl Binkley
Originally posted at: http://3rdmillenniumteacher.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-ones-we-lose.htmlLast week, right before Easter and in the middle of Passover, a vandal spray painted Nazi, anti-Jewish, and...
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Call This The Empty Chair by Patte Carter-Hevia
Today I attended a National Education Association Listening Tour stop. Dinner and then a keynote speaker and then a panel discussion. The theme was "How do we create the public schools that our...
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Let’s Hear It For Black Girls! by Steven Singer
Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/lets-hear-it-for-black-girls/“Sisters are more than the sum of their relative disadvantages: they are active agents who craft...
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NY Teachers VAM-Boozled Again by Dr. Michael Flanagan
Starting next week, NYC teachers will begin to give our MOSL (Measure Of Student Learning) Assessments. Thanks to Governor Cuomo, the NYS Legislature, and the Board of Regents -- they now comprise 40%...
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My Students Are NOT a Number. They Are Human, and They Are Beautiful!! by...
Today, I had the God-Awful job of informing my 8th graders of their STAAR results. Not all of them failed. Not all of them passed. Some passed one but not the other (Math and Reading.) But ALL of them...
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Trump Can’t Limit Federal Role in Public Schools AND Push School Vouchers by...
Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/trump-cant-limit-federal-role-in-public-schools-and-push-school-vouchers/Donald Trump is talking out of both sides of his...
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A Teacher's Thoughts on Fidget Spinners by Dr. Michael Flanagan
You’re teaching a class. You hear this little “twip, twip, twip, twip”, but you are not sure where it’s coming from. You look around, and notice the kids are spinning...something...in their hands, on...
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Don’t Trash the Department of Education. Fix It. by Steven Singer
Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/30/dont-trash-the-department-of-education-fix-it/How do you get people to refuse a helping hand?Answer: Prove to them that it’s...
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I May Have Just Been Murdered By House Republicans by Steven Singer
Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/i-may-have-just-been-murdered-by-house-republicans/I may be dead already.And House Republicans may be the ones who killed...
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