Remainders: Multi-state Common Core tests to take 8-10 hours

by Philissa Cramer, at 7:51 pm

New Common Core exams that New York could adopt would take eight to 10 hours. (Curriculum Matters)
A long time ago we tried to rename “reformers.” Here’s an attempt at a whole taxonomy. (Peer-Reviewed)
Speaking of minority caucus UFT presidential candidate Julie Cavanagh, here’s an interview. (WOR 710)
Regularly absent city students’ NAEP scores were down 9 percent on average. (Inside School Research)
A Bronx school’s new colors, including “salsa,” come courtesy of designer Massimo Vignelli. (City Room)
Overheard on the subway: Students who say they give more to teachers who care. (Shoulders of Giants)
A New York student has one of the world’s worst school commutes; see others. (Transportation Nation)
A teacher offers a critical close reading of scenes from Oprah’s “Blackboard Wars.” (Assailed Teacher)
A writer says school policies now, as in the past, aim to eliminate blackness. (Root DC via Answer Sheet)
A low-performing Newark, N.J., school is struggling to serve new students with disabilities. (Hechinger)
Eric Hanushek is coming around on the value of reasoned, open ed policy debate. (Bridging Differences)
A city teacher says an educator “bar exam” is no substitute for a higher entry bar. (Mr. D’s Neighborhood)

noryeln

Rhee-formers? (my apologies to Syngman Rhee)
Ideocrats? (ideals are too subective)
Kopp-a-crats (kinda like Whak- a -mole but without the hitting… there’s no hitting in education)
Rav-a-crats (Diane Ravitch not Ravi Shankar)
Mann-o-crats (Horace, Mann that is)
Froeble-crats (Father of Kindergarten)
Costco-crat (huge schools with price reductions)
Koch-crats (huge school with round the clock testing)
wall-o-crats (as in The Wall…. teacher leave those kids alone)
I could go on……..
normsco

Maybe not totally in the spirit of the exact definition but I (modestly)
like the phase I coined many years ago that has been picked up by
various people (including Michael Mulgrew): deformers, which truly
describes what they have done to education. One of MORE’s original
constituent orgs, GEM, branded itself as Real Reformers.
And while
I’m here I’d also like to note that the always awesome Assailed Teacher
is running on the MORE slate for UFT Executive Board.
KenMH

The taxonomy post is really interesting and unusual in that it makes a serious attempt to factor ed reform thinking into more than two schools of thought. I’d factor things differently, but I like the concept and effort.

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