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, May 03, 2019 The Best School Innovation Would Be More People Public schools thrive on innovation. In nearly every classroom around the country you’ll find teachers discovering new ways to reach students and foster skills, understanding and creativity. But if you pan out to the macro level, the overwhelming majority of innovations aren’t organic. They’re... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 06, 2019 Standardized Testing is a Tool of White Supremacy Let’s say you punched me in the face. I wouldn’t like it. I’d protest. I’d complain. And then you might apologize and say it was just an accident. Maybe I’d believe you. Until the next time when we met and you punched me again. That’s the problem we, as a society, have with standardized tests. We... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 29, 2019 Sell Your Soul to the Testocracy: Kamala Harris’s Faustian Teacher Raises I love the idea of Kamala Harris’ plan to give teachers a pay raise. But once we get past ideas, it’s way more troubling . The California Senator and Democratic Presidential hopeful is proposing a $13,500 pay increase for the average teacher , with the exact number based on the size of each state’s... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 16, 2019 Who’s Afraid of Public Schools? Public schools are the bogeymen of American life. We so often hear the bedtime story of “Failing Schools” that it’s no wonder some folks will do anything to ensure their kids get in elsewhere. And let’s be honest. It’s the same impulse behind the latest college admissions cheating scandal . A group... Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 03, 2019 Betsy DeVos' Right-Wing School Indoctrination Program What do you do when thinking people reject your political ideology? You get rid of thinking people. That's Betsy DeVos' plan to rejuvenate and renew the Republican Party. Read more |
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Views Monday, February 11, 2019 Rahm Emanuel’s Non-Apology Apology for Being a School Privatization Cheerleader Rahm Emanuel’s recent op-ed in The Atlantic may be one of the dumbest things I have ever read. The title— “I Used to Preach the Gospel of Education Reform. Then I Became the Mayor” —seems to imply Emanuel has finally seen the light. The outgoing Chicago Mayor USED TO subscribe to the radical right... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 05, 2019 Ten of 15 Cyber Charter Schools in PA Are Operating Without a Charter–Close Them All Cyber charters schools are an experiment that failed. It’s time to pull the plug and recoup our losses . First, let’s get straight exactly what we’re talking about here. Like all charter schools, these are contracted institutions. In fact, that’s what charter means – they’re independent businesses... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 14, 2019 LA Teachers Strike Is About Charter Schools and High Stakes Testing On Monday more than 30,000 teachers at 900 schools in Los Angeles, California, will be on strike . And unlike the wave of teachers strikes last year in red states like West Virginia , this time educators are taking to the streets due to the policies of Democrats. At issue are things like lowering... Read more |
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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 |