Students should act as scientists, artists, and historians: not just study content or restrictive work that allows for success on multiple choice tests

Goal of 2017 education – evolve into active, informed and intelligent citizens

Records show that teacher programs throughout the State University of New York system have experienced a 40% decline in enrollment over the past five years.

Bernard Kellie and David Green discuss the absence of a one-size-fits-all instructional manual or playbook for classroom teaching.

In David Greene’s latest article, he discusses the wealthy, fake education reform philanthropists, including the Broad and Walton Foundations.

Last spring Katie Benmar wrote an editorial, My Favorite Teachers Use Social Media: A Student Perspective, in Education Week. David Greene, a regular contributor for edCircuit, stumbled upon Benmar’s op-ed and wanted to provide his perspective as an educator. 

David Greene spoke as part of a panel in Philadelphia about media and messaging in education and his perspective on education reformers.

It’s funny how little the candidates for president speak about K-12 education on their political circuits.  Some of that is the fault of media pundits and debate moderators who want to discuss flashier topics like foreign policy and terrorism, or simply want to create flash points to watch them tear each other apart. No matter how important education is, it won’t make for good TV or Internet.

Too many parents, teachers, and school administrators falsely think that by putting children in high achieving science programs, music lessons, or preparing them for AP or SAT exams from the time they are 12 years old to get them into the most prestigious colleges, will create masters of creativity.

David Greene discusses how lifelong teachers must be allowed to continue to use our God-given abilities to think, reason, and create.

an op-ed on the Common Core State Standards, The Real “Common Core” of Teaching, that garnered a lot of attention on LinkedIn. Here is the reaction of educator Ken Turner: 

Yes. I used the forbidden phrase. But let’s use those two words as if Common Core State Standards (CCSS) had never existed.  Recently we have seen weak attempts by both Congress and some states to pull back from their initial  “gung ho” approach to both standardized testing and CCSS because of a huge parental and teacher uproar. Unfortunately, even with these supposed pull-backs, teachers still feel like caged birds, unable to sing out. Hopefully this continued push back will make the policy makers pull even farther back and put education back in control of the professionals and communities they serve. In fact we might even go back to what the true common core of teaching should be.

O ver the past five months I have had two open-heart surgeries and as a result have spent three weeks in one of the most prestigious hospitals in the United States. I have had two of the world’s best cardiothoracic surgeons do incredible work on my heart. I have had some of the best nursing care one can imagine, and I am on my way to healing the second time. That is the good news.

In his latest article, David Greene tells the story of a retired high school teacher named “Derrick” who became a substitute at a suburban high school.

In this article, David Greene discusses how teacher recruitment and the economic achievement gap have changed in New York City since the late 1960s.