I am a DreamTeacher Fellow with an organization called DreamWakers. This organization connects classrooms to professionals around the country. Then, the students in the classroom are able to video chat with that professional. My students have been chatting with professionals who use the skills that accompany art and creativity in their careers. This is a […]
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This video is a MUST WATCH. This is serious, y’all. This nominee for Secretary of Education is opposed to public education. Every single educator and parent should be upset about this. This is not a dig at Trump. If you like him, support him, and voted, you should still be upset about […]
Read More...I’ve just read the most depressing article this morning from back in the spring about Detroit’s schools. It tells about how much some families struggle to get their children to school in a??place where school choice policy has run rampant for many years. I can’t imagine having to do any of the things described in […]
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The Network for Public Education published a report today entitled “Teachers Talk Back: Educators on the Impact of Teacher Evaluation.” Tupelo??teacher and MSEdBlog editor Amanda Koonlaba was one of the eight educators who??wrote the report. The “Teachers Talk Back” report chronicles a study from??the fall of 2015, in which NPE investigated teacher turnover and frustration […]
Read More...This is Part 3 of The Facts about School Choice. In Part 1 and Part 2, Amanda Koonlaba explained the history of the school choice movement beginning with Brown v. Board of Education and ending in 2015 when the state of Mississippi passed HB 369, better known as the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special […]
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With the Walton billionaires??doubling down??in their efforts to accelerate the charter school industry and with the Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings,??throwing in $100 million??to privatize traditional public schools, one might think that the U.S. Department of Education would be a major line of defense for America’s public schools educating the most underserved students or even a […]
Read More...Marion Brady is a veteran educator who has long argued that public education needs a paradigm shift. Brady says schools need a complete transformation in what and how students learn ??? not the Common Core State Standards, standardized tests and other elements of corporate-influenced school reform. Here???s his latest piece, on efforts by some reformers […]
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With dozens of children bundled in primary color-coded uniforms and matching yellow scarves, the second floor of the Capitol looked like a scene from Hogwarts Tuesday morning as students, educators, and parents from surrounding private and ch…
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This Tuesday, as part of “School Choice Week,” Empower Mississippi has organized a rally in Jackson to promote awareness of its chief cause- bringing vouchers and charter schools to our state. MS Ed Blogger Amanda Koonlaba has written about the movement previously, here and here. The pros and cons of school choice should be discussed […]
Read More...A Meridian math teacher has been honored with what’s known as “the Oscars of teaching.” ??????????
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