Education Reformers: Best of Intentions?
David Greene spoke as part of a panel in Philadelphia about media and messaging in education and his perspective on education reformers.
David Greene
David Greene is a former Social Studies teacher and coach. He is also a program consultant for an organization that helps high schools create and run experiential learning programs for seniors. In addition, he is the author of “Doing the Right Thing: A Teacher Speaks,” is the former Treasurer of Save Our Schools and an active blogger and speaker. His blogs have appeared in Diane Ravitch’s website, EdCircuit, Education Weekly, US News and World Report, and the Washington Post. David writes opinon pieces for EdCircuit. – The opinions he expresses here are solely his own.
The Presidential Candidates’ Education Circus
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.
What Makes a Child a Creative Adult?
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 on Teacher Prep: The Error of Our Ways
David Greene discusses how lifelong teachers must be allowed to continue to use our God-given abilities to think, reason, and create.
How Would da Vinci Fare in a Common Core World?
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:
THE REAL “COMMON CORE” OF TEACHING
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.