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ONE STUPID HISTORY TEACHER
About one minute ago this comment was left on my most recent post about this past week’s U.S. History Regents: denton | January 28, 2013 at 8:31 pm | Reply | Edit The answer for 14 is 3 slaveholders....
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STUPID QUESTIONS ON THE JANUARY 2013 GLOBAL HISTORY REGENTS (PART I)
The history of all humankind in 50 questions. What could possibly go wrong? It’s time for another round of stupid questions from the brain trust that is the New York State Board of Regents. Last time,...
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A THINK PIECE IN THE NY POST (SAY WHAT?)
It’s not everyday that the New York Post gets philosoraptor thinking. Proving the old adage that even a blind squirrel finds a nut from time to time, the NY Post ran an editorial last week that wasn’t...
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THE MARCH OF THE DATA
What is there to be afraid of? They are there every year. They have been there for the past few years, starting their high school careers with faces anxiously upturned. I give them the run-down: the...
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HOW MANY INEFFECTIVE TEACHERS ARE THERE?
This is a question we hear being asked with greater frequency. The structure of the question is telling about the climate of teacher bashing in which we currently live. It assumes that there is some...
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SEVEN SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE FOR NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS
New York City teachers come back to work tomorrow after an early Spring Break. Just in time too because rumblings of change are everywhere here in the city. The nation should have its eye on what...
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The First Day of Philosophy Class
As some of you might already know, I’ve been teaching an elective philosophy class at my school for the past 8 years. We meet every Wednesday afternoon for 8 weeks. After that, the students choose...
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How New York City Can Rid Themselves of the Race to the Top Evaluations
There is no crime against wishful thinking, although it might not be part of Danielson’s rubric. Teachers at my school keep asking me: “What is the union going to do about this new evaluation system?”...
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The Power of Opting Out
There is always a choice. This piece was originally written for Schoolbook who did not see fit to pick it up. Why let it go to waste? Opting out is becoming a form of educational civil disobedience....
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What’s in a Test?
Supporters of the Common Core have to reckon with one immutable truth: testing does not measure everything. Whether or not it measures anything important at all is up for debate. The fact that it...
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