My thoughts on education.
I was born a “child” advocate. I was born an “advocate and activist” for all that I believe to be wrong with our state, nation and the world. I used to get teased by my father for “being on that soapbox again…” and today I carry my soapbox with pride. I was raised in a […]
Why I Fight Unapologetically Hard for Children. Read More »
Education Week Letter to the Editor, published January 25, 2011: To the Editor: The Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa gift President Barack Obama signed into law on Dec. 22, 2010, that will allow states to classify teaching interns (students earning teaching certificates and endorsements) as “highly qualified” was a giant lump of educational coal to our nation’s minority, low-income,
Deeming Interns ‘Qualified’ is Harmful to Students Read More »
The Michigan Department of Education is withholding $5 million dollars of federal money from the Detroit Public Schools after finding them in substantive violation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, our federal law that mandates a “free appropriate public education” for students with disabilities. This is outrageous when the very same Department gave ALL
MDE, DPS and an Educational Shell Game Read More »
Can you answer the following question? What are 6 data points at or below the 9th percentile on a Curriculum Based Measurement (“CBM”)? Don’t know the answer? Count yourself among the tens-of-thousands of Michigan parents with a child at risk or already identified with a specific learning disability (“SLD”); along with our State’s woefully ill-prepared
I was recently stopped in my reading-tracks, by an article in the December 3, 2008 issue of Teacher Magazine. The teacher titled her perky little piece, “Teaching Secrets: Taming the Dragon of Classroom Chaos” (By, Cossondra George). In the first several paragraphs, the teacher laments -albeit without excuses – being “inherently disorganized, life’s simplest tasks
Executive Dysfunction Requires More than a Magic Wand Read More »
