Algebra May Not Be Necessary, But Mathematics Is Essential!

“Is Algebra Necessary?” screamed the front-page headline of The New York Times Sunday Review on July 29, 2012. For almost 2000 words, Andrew Hacker,…

An Alternative To The Federally Mandated Teacher Evaluation Plans

All of the plans for evaluating classroom teacher performance in the public schools share a common flaw: failure to recognize that the present system of public education in the United States are incapable of providing children…

All of the controversy about teacher evaluation is driven by the federally mandated Race To The Top. Unfortunately nowhere is the “top” precisely defined and the educrats who conceived and established the Race To The Top forgot that any race to the top begins at the bottom and they neglected to identify the “bottom” from which we are supposed to race to the “top.”…

Attack VAM before it is too late

Classroom teachers and building principals must join together and attack Value-Added Modeling (VAM) as a method for classroom teacher evaluation much less a measure of student performance and teacher effectiveness.

In New…

These goals for excellence in education encompass all the areas of the public school curriculum that are necessary to become an informed voter and a contributing citizen at age 18: English, Reading and Speech, Library and Research Skills, Mathematics and Science, Technology, Social Studies, Foreign Languages, Physical Education, Athletics, Health, Business, The Cultural Arts and the Performing Arts. …

An Open Letter To Public-School Teachers Throughout The United States

The United States Department of Education (ED) “Race to the Top” is a thinly disguised effort at union busting and an effort to eliminate all the gains that collective bargaining have brought to teachers and their profession in the last 35 years.

The…