education Archives – https://ezkool.com/tag/education/ Sun, 08 Nov 2020 03:12:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ezkool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ezkool-logo-75png.png education Archives – https://ezkool.com/tag/education/ 32 32 12773863 Reopening School https://ezkool.com/2020/07/reopening-school/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 15:34:00 +0000 https://ezkool.com/?p=89755 The post Reopening School appeared first on .

]]> 89755 Silence On Education https://ezkool.com/2020/05/silence-on-education/ Sun, 03 May 2020 17:05:59 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=88750 The post Silence On Education appeared first on .

]]> 88750 The New School Year: History Will Guide the Future https://ezkool.com/2017/09/5new-school-year-history-will-guide-future/ Sun, 03 Sep 2017 16:10:37 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=66453 New school years always bring new challenges for children, parents and teachers. This school year, though, promises to be much trickier, because we are now debating United States History. Remember history? That’s the class that isn’t tested at the end of the year by the great national testing monopoly, Pearson. The PARCC tests focus on […]

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]]> 66453 America’s Educators Lead the Way https://ezkool.com/2017/07/1americas-educators-lead-way/ Sun, 09 Jul 2017 15:21:27 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=66382 If you care deeply about social and racial justice, value equal opportunity, detest discrimination and believe that this country needs to focus on its core values of tolerance, compromise, equality and democracy, then fear not. America’s educators have got your back. I returned from the National Education Association (NEA) convention in Boston last week feeling […]

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]]> 66382 Back To School: A Different Kind of Division https://ezkool.com/2016/09/back-to-school-a-different-kind-of-division/ https://ezkool.com/2016/09/back-to-school-a-different-kind-of-division/#respond Mon, 05 Sep 2016 23:48:25 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63989 The great divide in American public attitudes is most evident during Presidential election years, and this year is no different. Republicans and Democrats seem to be living in two different countries when it comes to their views on how much the government should be involved in people’s lives, the role of religion, support for social […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/09/back-to-school-a-different-kind-of-division/feed/ 0 63989 Chris Christie: Terrible as Governor But Qualified for VP https://ezkool.com/2016/07/5christie-terrible-governor-qualified-vp/ https://ezkool.com/2016/07/5christie-terrible-governor-qualified-vp/#respond Sun, 03 Jul 2016 21:23:25 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63551 I sort of forgot that Chris Christie was still the Governor of New Jersey and an active politician until this week, so quiet was he on policy and bombast. But now he’s back. His first foray was to emerge with a set of checks made out to suburban school district students for $6,599 each.  This […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/07/5christie-terrible-governor-qualified-vp/feed/ 0 63551 Teacher Caught on Camera Beating Black Student – Gets Arrested – Video https://ezkool.com/2016/04/teacher-caught-camera-beating-black-student-gets-arrested/ https://ezkool.com/2016/04/teacher-caught-camera-beating-black-student-gets-arrested/#respond Sat, 09 Apr 2016 14:33:32 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63067 Cameras are all over the place. These criminals need to keep that when they decide to commit these crimes. To Texas we go! According to KHOU, Mary Hastings,63, a teacher at Ozen High School near Beaumont was arrested for assault. In the video — shot by another student, — Hastings can be seen repeatedly hitting […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/04/teacher-caught-camera-beating-black-student-gets-arrested/feed/ 0 63067 Georgia Teacher Resigns for Calling Student “the dumbest girl I have ever met”  https://ezkool.com/2016/03/georgia-teacher-resigns-for-calling-student-the-dumbest-girl-i-have-ever-met/ https://ezkool.com/2016/03/georgia-teacher-resigns-for-calling-student-the-dumbest-girl-i-have-ever-met/#respond Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:18:46 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=62769 A Georgia teacher who called a high school student “the dumbest girl I have ever met” resigned on Monday night, the NY Daily News reports. Cory Hunter apologized for any “disruption” he caused and announced at a school board meeting in Greesboro that he was stepping down. “He will not be returning to the classroom,” Greene County […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/03/georgia-teacher-resigns-for-calling-student-the-dumbest-girl-i-have-ever-met/feed/ 0 62769 Public Workers: Working Hard, Paying More, Getting Less, Being Blamed. Solution? https://ezkool.com/2016/02/public-workers-working-hard-paying-more-getting-less-being-blamed-solution/ Sun, 14 Feb 2016 20:44:12 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=62482 Governor Christie wasn’t back in New Jersey for two days before his administration and its apologists went back on the attack on public worker pensions and health benefits. The man who promised that he wouldn’t touch pensions in his gubernatorial run in 2009, and who staked his presidential ambitions on a bipartisan pension and benefits […]

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]]> 62482 The Swift Fall of Testing – What Comes Next? https://ezkool.com/2015/11/the-swift-fall-of-testing-what-comes-next/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:14:33 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=61270 I’ve been in the education business for 31 years and I’ve seen many a fad come and go, from Teacher-proof curricula to shared decision-making to Differentiation to Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Mapping, Goals 2000 and various reading programs that focus on inventive spelling, phonics, whole language and learning vocabulary in context. Many of my colleagues didn’t […]

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]]> 61270 Education’s Dirty Little Secret https://ezkool.com/2015/11/educations-dirty-little-secret/ https://ezkool.com/2015/11/educations-dirty-little-secret/#respond Sun, 01 Nov 2015 23:33:54 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=60710 The week began with the president saying that there was too much emphasis on testing in schools.  In the middle of the week, the New York Times published a story about Success Academy Charter Schools that, among other things, noted the following: The network serves mostly black and Hispanic students and is known for exacting […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/11/educations-dirty-little-secret/feed/ 0 60710 Great Teachers Make Great Schools https://ezkool.com/2015/09/great-teachers-make-great-schools/ https://ezkool.com/2015/09/great-teachers-make-great-schools/#respond Wed, 02 Sep 2015 01:30:18 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=59749 Another school year. It’s my 32nd as a teacher and I can still say that I love what I’m doing and believe that I am contributing to the betterment of society. I just wish that at some point before I go to the Great Faculty Room in the Sky, you know, the one where the […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/09/great-teachers-make-great-schools/feed/ 0 59749 Education Roars Back https://ezkool.com/2015/08/education-roars-back/ https://ezkool.com/2015/08/education-roars-back/#respond Sun, 16 Aug 2015 23:12:24 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=59555 It’s August and the Back to School sales are ramping up in earnest, at least here in the nor’east. The sales started in July for the more southerly US climes, but that’s because they’re already back in the classrooms. In any event, it’s time once again to be thinking about education, and the issue is […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/08/education-roars-back/feed/ 0 59555 CCRAP! More Testing Ahead https://ezkool.com/2015/04/ccrap-more-testing-ahead/ https://ezkool.com/2015/04/ccrap-more-testing-ahead/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2015 00:20:50 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=58680 If you’re a regular American, you know, like the kind of person Hillary Clinton is trying to appeal to, you probably think that the PARCC tests are over and that the education system has moved on. Not so. This week marks the return of the standardized tests that no one likes, and are based on […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/04/ccrap-more-testing-ahead/feed/ 0 58680 Pearson Jumps the Shark on PARCC https://ezkool.com/2015/03/pearson-jumps-the-shark-on-parcc/ https://ezkool.com/2015/03/pearson-jumps-the-shark-on-parcc/#respond Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:11:54 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=58305 We are truly in deep PARCC mode now. Perhaps the April/May test administration should include readings from the Pentagon Papers. Pearson Education, the company that produces the PARCC tests, and is reportedly being paid over $22 million dollars in New Jersey alone, is monitoring social media to check for security breaches and other untoward activity.  […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/03/pearson-jumps-the-shark-on-parcc/feed/ 0 58305 On Education: Can’t See the Forest for the Bushes https://ezkool.com/2015/03/on-education-cant-see-the-forest-for-the-bushes/ https://ezkool.com/2015/03/on-education-cant-see-the-forest-for-the-bushes/#respond Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:10:58 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=58229 AFP PHOTO/Saul LOEB Remember the education president? That would be George H.W. Bush, who promised that he would focus on improving schools so that the United States would be number one in educating its children for the new millennium. His Goals 2000: Educate America Act had terrific political nuggets such as: All children in America […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/03/on-education-cant-see-the-forest-for-the-bushes/feed/ 0 58229 Teacher Hangs Herself In Classroom https://ezkool.com/2015/03/teacher-hangs-herself-in-classroom/ https://ezkool.com/2015/03/teacher-hangs-herself-in-classroom/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2015 01:35:06 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=58167 No,  reports say her students were not in the classroom at the time, but they found her body hanging in the classroom when they reported for class. Jillian Jacobson, 31, was pronounced dead at the scene at El Dorado High School in Placentia, some 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Los Angeles, said a spokesman. […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/03/teacher-hangs-herself-in-classroom/feed/ 0 58167 President’s Weekly Address – Time to Replace ‘No Child Left Behind’ https://ezkool.com/2015/02/presidents-weekly-address-time-to-replace-no-child-left-behind/ https://ezkool.com/2015/02/presidents-weekly-address-time-to-replace-no-child-left-behind/#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2015 19:43:51 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=57971 In this week’s Weekly Address,  President Obama spoke about education and replacing No Child Left Behind with a more modern, smarter policy that guarantees a better education for our children. “I want to work with both parties in Congress to replace No Child Left Behind with a smarter law,” the president said. A law “that […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/02/presidents-weekly-address-time-to-replace-no-child-left-behind/feed/ 0 57971 The Best and Brightest Have Let Us Down https://ezkool.com/2015/02/the-best-and-brightest-have-let-us-down/ https://ezkool.com/2015/02/the-best-and-brightest-have-let-us-down/#respond Sun, 08 Feb 2015 23:38:56 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=57911 I get very tired very quickly when I hear that we need the best and brightest to become classroom teachers in the United States. For one, it’s incredibly insulting because it assumes that the teachers we have now in public schools are somehow subpar, which is not true. Further, it also assumes that the elite […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/02/the-best-and-brightest-have-let-us-down/feed/ 0 57911 PARCC Storm II: Sunshine Peeks Through https://ezkool.com/2015/02/parcc-storm-ii-sunshine-peeks-through/ https://ezkool.com/2015/02/parcc-storm-ii-sunshine-peeks-through/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2015 17:11:00 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=57729 Another week, and more snow is expected in the northeast. There’s more over the PARCC testing storm as well, but this time, there is a ray of sane sunshine. Here in New Jersey, State Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan Jr. (D-Middlesex), chairman of the Assembly’s education committee, has introduced a bill that would detail a procedure for […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/02/parcc-storm-ii-sunshine-peeks-through/feed/ 0 57729 Salting the PARCCing Lot https://ezkool.com/2015/01/salting-the-parccing-lot/ https://ezkool.com/2015/01/salting-the-parccing-lot/#respond Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:48:58 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=57612 Educators, are you getting excited? No, not about the next snowstorm, which looks like a whopper, but about the PARCC tests? You’d better be, because they are on the way and the impact will be measurable and unpredictable. For those non-educators, the PARCC tests are the standardized tests that students in grades 3-11 will take […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/01/salting-the-parccing-lot/feed/ 0 57612 President Obama Proposes Free Community College For Everyone https://ezkool.com/2015/01/president-obama-proposes-free-community-college-for-everyone/ https://ezkool.com/2015/01/president-obama-proposes-free-community-college-for-everyone/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:48:47 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=57283 The president’s proposal will offer the first two years of community college for free. The president will formally announce the details of this plan in his upcoming State of The Union Address later this month.

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/01/president-obama-proposes-free-community-college-for-everyone/feed/ 2 57283 The New Smart https://ezkool.com/2014/12/the-new-smart/ https://ezkool.com/2014/12/the-new-smart/#respond Mon, 29 Dec 2014 01:10:31 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=57017 Yes, I know it’s the holiday break and students and teachers across the country are off, but really, this is just the calm before the storm. There are only two more months until the new PARCC tests are administered. Then there’s a 6 to 8 week break. Then more PARCC tests will be administered. These […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2014/12/the-new-smart/feed/ 0 57017 10 Year Old Embarrasses Politician on Live Television – Video https://ezkool.com/2014/12/10-year-old-embarrasses-politician-on-live-television-video/ https://ezkool.com/2014/12/10-year-old-embarrasses-politician-on-live-television-video/#respond Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:51:34 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=56625 It happened in London, but the same thing can easily happen here, where our government has been infiltrated by Teapartiers and backward Republicans. The 10 year old decided to pose a math question to the Minister of Education, Nicky Morgan. But Morgan, equipped with her education position in the government, was no match for Leon’s […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2014/12/10-year-old-embarrasses-politician-on-live-television-video/feed/ 0 56625 Thirty Years an Educator https://ezkool.com/2014/11/thirty-years-educator/ https://ezkool.com/2014/11/thirty-years-educator/#respond Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:20:51 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=56288 Thirty years ago today, I walked into York Preparatory School on New York’s Upper East Side for my first day as a high school history teacher. I had no formal training as a teacher except for my degree in History from Syracuse University. I had been working in advertising for a Madison Avenue firm that […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2014/11/thirty-years-educator/feed/ 0 56288 In Education, Teachers Must Lead the Way https://ezkool.com/2014/09/in-education-teachers-must-lead-the-way/ https://ezkool.com/2014/09/in-education-teachers-must-lead-the-way/#respond Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:10:44 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=54414 Aside from the December holiday season, the back-to-school late August and early September rush has the most profound effects on the United States. Shopping patterns change, traffic gets worse, and the general tenor of every community shifts to accommodate the children and adults who work in education. Welcome to this year’s edition. Some things have […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2014/09/in-education-teachers-must-lead-the-way/feed/ 0 54414 The Education Reform Silly Season https://ezkool.com/2014/08/education-reform-silly-season/ https://ezkool.com/2014/08/education-reform-silly-season/#respond Mon, 11 Aug 2014 00:19:56 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=53777 It might be summer, but the education know-nothings are clearly not at the beach. The latest case-in-point is former CNN correspondent Campbell Brown’s incredibly uninformed comments on teacher tenure that, unfortunately, millions of people saw and didn’t stick around for the fact-checking. Her musings come on the heels of a California decision in which a […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2014/08/education-reform-silly-season/feed/ 0 53777 Tenure Scare https://ezkool.com/2014/06/tenure-scare566/ https://ezkool.com/2014/06/tenure-scare566/#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:02:06 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=52307 The recent decision in California regarding teacher tenure is causing a great deal of anxiety in public education and in those states where teacher tenure still has some meaning. The ruling that tenure is unconstitutional because it denies students the right to a decent education is an interesting take on the subject, but it obscures […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2014/06/tenure-scare566/feed/ 0 52307 Why the All-Ivy League Story Stirs Up Tensions Between African Immigrants and Black Americans https://ezkool.com/2014/04/why-the-all-ivy-league-story-stirs-up-tensions-between-african-immigrants-and-black-americans/ https://ezkool.com/2014/04/why-the-all-ivy-league-story-stirs-up-tensions-between-african-immigrants-and-black-americans/#respond Fri, 04 Apr 2014 01:30:21 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=49966 ABC The story of the first-generation Ghanian-American student accepted by all eight Ivy league schools is wonderful, but it also stirs up the tension between black Americans and recent African immigrants — especially when you describe him as “not a typical African-American kid.” That’s been the reaction to USA Today‘s profile on Kwasi Enin, a Long […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2014/04/why-the-all-ivy-league-story-stirs-up-tensions-between-african-immigrants-and-black-americans/feed/ 0 49966 The Tide’s Coming In But the Cerf’s Out https://ezkool.com/2014/02/the-tides-coming-in-but-the-cerfs-out/ https://ezkool.com/2014/02/the-tides-coming-in-but-the-cerfs-out/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:46:42 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=48291 Anyone who’s been paying attention to New Jersey politics and education should have seen this one coming from a mile away: the resignation of Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf. What makes it even more predictable is that he’s taking a job with his good buddy, and former Education Chancellor of New York City, Joel Klein. Those […]

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