Steven Singer
Steven Singer is a husband, father, teacher, blogger and education advocate. He often writes at his own blog here.
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Views Friday, December 14, 2018 What Happened to 2018 As The Year of the Teacher? This year teachers took their mission way beyond the classroom. Starting in West Virginia, we staged half-a-dozen walkouts in red states across the country demanding a better investment in children’s educations and often getting it. Then we took that momentum and stormed our state capitals and... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 08, 2018 Charter School Lobby Silent as Charter Teachers Continue Strike Charter school teachers in Chicago are in their fourth day of a strike . Yet I wonder why the leaders of the charter movement are quiet. Where is Peter Cunningham of the Education Post ? Where is Shaver Jeffries of Democrats for Education Reform ? Not a word from Campbell Brown or Michelle Rhee ?... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 02, 2018 Billionaire Heiress Lashes Out at Unions Because Her Fortune Didn’t Buy Election Betsy DeVos is furious! She and her family spent boatloads of money this election cycle and few of their candidates won. Instead, lawmakers were largely selected by these things called… ew… voters. She was so enraged that she used her platform as Secretary of Education – another prudent purchase by... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 24, 2018 Dear Lawmakers, Please Hire Teachers as Education Aides—Not TFA Alumni Dear freshmen lawmakers, We did it! After a fiercely contested election, we have finally begun to turn the tide back toward progressive politics. Midterms usually are sparsely attended, but this year we had an unprecedented turnout. A total of 2 3 states had double-digit percentage-point increases... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 03, 2018 The World Mourns for Jews After Pittsburgh’s Synagogue Shooting. What About Other Targets of Hate? When a white supremacist killed 11 people and wounded 6 others at a Pittsburgh synagogue last weekend, the world took notice. Lights dimmed at the Eiffel Tower and Empire State building . Candlelight vigils were held nationwide – including in Boston, Houston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, New... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 27, 2018 The Pittsburgh Community is Stronger Than the Synagogue Shooter’s Hate There’s a popular yard sign in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. In bands of green and blue and yellow, it projects the same message in Spanish, English and Arabic: “No matter where you are from, we’re glad you’re our neighbor.” If the community had a motto, I think that might be it... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 08, 2018 There Is Virtually No Difference Between Nonprofit and For-Profit Charter Schools Stop kidding yourself. Charter schools are a bad deal. Read more |
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Views Monday, August 27, 2018 No One Ever Remembered a Teacher for Raising Standardized Test Scores It’s the day before school begins. I’m out to eat with my family and have just taken a big bite of a juicy beef taco. That’s when I notice someone standing right next to me at the restaurant. So I raise my eyes upward, a meat filled tortilla overfilled with lettuce and beans hanging from my mouth,... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 11, 2018 This Wall Street PAC Bankrolling Democrats Thinks Being Progressive Means Mirroring Betsy DeVos Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) put out a new video about what they think it means to be an education progressive. And by the political action committee’s definition, Betsy DeVos may be the most “progressive” education secretary ever. She champions “public charter schools.” Just like them !... Read more |
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Views Saturday, July 21, 2018 Wealth—Not Enrollment in Private School—Increases Student Achievement, According to New Study Students enrolled in private schools often get good grades and high test scores. And there’s a reason for that – they’re from wealthier families. "If we really want to help our children, the solution is not increased privatization. It is increased funding and support for anti-poverty programs,... Read more |