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Middle ground on learning styles?

Recently, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright made a speech in which he suggested that black and white students inherently learn differently. NPR’s Tell Me More explored that statement with two education professors, Pedro Noguera and Janice Hale…

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Teachers speak on evaluation, unions, and reform

[via District 299 and the Associated Press]

A new study by Education Sector continues to break down the image that teachers are opposed to evaluation, interested in protecting bad teachers, and disinterested in professional development…

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Carnival of Education

This week’s Carnival of Education links to a continuation of the conversation from last week about Carl Chew, the Washington State teacher who refused to administer his state’s standardized tests.  This week, Larry Ferlazzo puts Chew’s actions in the larger context of civil disobedience:

I think performing civil disobedience outside of the context of a strategic campaign is indeed often, to use the words in Bill’s post, “arrogant” and “egocentric.” At the risk of sounding too harsh, I think it’s much easier to refuse to give a standardized test then to do the day-to-day and face-to-face organizing of listening and agitating people to develop an effective campaign for more accurate and just student assessments.

Also mentioned, this series in the Columbus Education Association Blog (which featured TEN in its Carnival a few weeks back), examining the legacy of the Nation At Risk report…

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