Faculty Lounge Los Angeles Public Schools Closed due to Credible Threat Spencer Irvine December 15, 2015 All public schools in Los Angeles were closed to an undisclosed, but credible, security threat.
Perspectives Common Core Computer Crack-Up Malcolm A. Kline December 6, 2015 What do Common Core and Obamacare have in common, other than the enthusiasm they engender in the White House and…
Faculty Lounge Does Freedom of Religion Extend to the Classroom? Spencer Irvine December 3, 2015 It’s a valid question and a good take from an AFA Journal piece.
Faculty Lounge Common Core in South Dakota is Being Sued Spencer Irvine November 30, 2015 Via Education News: Continuing its legal battle to stop the federal government from usurping control over the nation’s elementary and…
Faculty Lounge No Legos for Boys, says Kindergarten Teacher Spencer Irvine November 22, 2015 All in the name of gender equality. Huh?!
Faculty Lounge Standardized Testing is Modern-Day Slavery, Principal says Spencer Irvine November 12, 2015 College Fix has more on this: Jamaal Bowman, principal of the intriguingly named Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, wrote in…
Faculty Lounge It’s Hard to be a Teacher under Common Core Spencer Irvine Common Core hurts English language learners, as this piece in the Washington Post refers to.
Faculty Lounge California School District Bans Drawings of Religious Leaders after Mohammed Doodle Assignment Spencer Irvine November 11, 2015 My goodness, this is now offensive?! Do we have to take everything seriously?! Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District (California) Superintendent…
Perspectives Common Core Standards Failing Spencer Irvine November 7, 2015 A recent American Institutes for Research (AIR) assessment noted that Common Core standards are not matching National Assessment of Educational…
Faculty Lounge Dept of Ed Orders Chicago High School to Allow Transgender Student to Use Girls’ Locker Room Spencer Irvine November 5, 2015 This is getting out of hand, isn’t it? The U.S. Department of Education has ordered suburban Chicago’s Township High School District…
Guest Articles Division at Home Can Subtract from Math at School Tony Perkins November 4, 2015 Money can buy a lot of things, but a good education may not be one of them. Yesterday, the National…
Faculty Lounge Alabama’s ‘Teacher of the Year’ Resigns because of Onerous Bureaucracy Spencer Irvine An excerpt from the College Fix’s article on the Alabama ‘Teacher of the Year’ Ann Marie Corgill: A 21-year veteran of…
