Denis Ian: The Common Core reformers …. from the start … were hesitant and spineless. Supposedly daring reformers dared not look at this issue of school performance through the lenses of race and economics.
Unhurry Your Child
Denis Ian: Don’t let anyone hurry your child. Don’t let anyone sandpaper their softest years with “grit” or”rigor” or “college ready” … because there’s plenty of that stuff in the eight hundred months ahead.
How Much Does Common Core Misery Cost?
Denis Ian: Your own schools … the ones you actually own … will be the investment oases of this new century … with a renewable stream of your own tax dollars until … until we all come to our senses. Or go broke.
Baby PISA Is Here
Denis Ian: So “Baby PISA” is here, “the Program for International Student Assessment,” and just a handful of parents have any clue what’s all about because most don’t care.
The Ten Commandments of Public Education
Denis Ian: These commandments for public education promise a return to purposeful education unpolluted by biases and prejudices and misplaced emphases.
Technological Opium Dens at Home and at School
Denis Ian: We’re outfitting kids with technological gizmos we don’t even understand. Giving them super-powerful thingamajigs we think of as toys. But they’re not toys at all.
The Big Ed Tech’s Big “Sell” Is On
“Silicon Valley is going all out to own America’s school computer-and-software market, projected to reach $21 billion in sales by 2020.”
The Pressure Mounts
Denis Ian: Education’s deep spiral has now hit bottom. And the thud you hear? That’s your child’s head … hittin’ the wall.
A Tale of Two Schools
Dennis Ian: These reforms were applied across the board. To every single school. In a grand display of meaningless equality.
An Open Letter to President Trump
Denis Ian: Mothers and fathers across America witnessed Donald Trump’s promise to end Common Core … and they signed that contract in the ballot booth.