Books for Preservice Teacher Education
So, if I were asked to design a program for pre-service teachers, these books would be my starting place. The Book of Learning and Forgetting …
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Educational Zoom Activity #1
“You can’t think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something” – Seymour Papert I find potentially interesting education provocations everywhere. The remarkable generosity of …
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The Coronavirus Chronicles
I’ve managed to do some some writing during the plague. Thanks for reading and stay safe. This is Our Moment! Let COVID-19 Kill the Pencil …
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This is Our Moment!
I hope that anyone reading this is healthy and sane during this period of uncertainty. Teachers and kids alike are grieving over the loss of …
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Let COVID-19 Kill the Pencil
Today’s horrific health and economic crisis might have at least one educational benefit, students are “working” from home and like everywhere else in the past …
The Power of the Book by Ken Goodman (2007)
Why is Harry Potter author, JK Rowling, suing a middle school librarian?
Making Reading First Fair and Flexible by Ken Goodman (2007)
Within the past two years the Inspector General of the Department of Education has issued a series of alarming reports on conflicts of interest and violations of the NCLB law that occurred during the implementation of Reading First by Department of Education staff and its consultants and contractors.
One Minute of Nonsense by Ken Goodman (2007)
I believe this period in American education will be characterized as the pedagogy of the absurd. Nothing better illustrates this than DIBELS…
Undoing the Damage Done Through Illegal Implementation of Reading First by Ken Goodman (2007)
The inspector General of the US Department of Education has documented flagrant conflicts of interest and illegal impositions of curriculum in negotiating the NCLB state contracts. Here are my views on what is needed to even partially undo the damage done.
Scientifically Based Research: 120 repetitions in NCLB by Ken Goodman (2007)
Redundancy has something to be said for it. In language, redundancy is one thing that makes human communication possible.
But when the exact same phrase is used redundantly in the 670 pages of the NCLB law (strictly speaking the 2002 NCLB revision of the ESEA law) it would seem that there must be a compelling reason for such redundancy…