Stop Blaming Teachers Declares Clifton High Language Arts Supervisor
Christopher De Vinck of Clifton High School argues for a national teachers’ voice against claims that educators and unions wreck American education. He cites decades of classroom work with 29 teachers and 3,500 students, praising teachers’ impact and urging respect over scapegoating.
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New Jersey
America
Helen Keller
Anne Sullivan
Dwight Eisenhower
Christopher de Vinck
Clifton High School
Clifton, N.J
A Woman Should Get Her Own Bill on the Twenty
The piece argues for replacing Andrew Jackson with a woman on the $20 bill and keeping Alexander Hamilton in a supporting design role. It critiques pairing Hamilton with female figures like Rosa Parks and Elizabeth Warren references, urging a full, standalone bill dedicated to a woman.
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Treasury
Jack Lew
Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton
Jackson
June
Rosa Parks
Frances Perkins
Susan B Anthony
Margaret Sanger
Eleanor Roosevelt
Betty Friedan
Virginia Woolf
Is the Common Core killing kindergarten in Cambridge
Cambridge teacher Susan Sluyter quit after nearly two decades citing a disturbing era of testing and data that reaches kindergartners with demands she says resemble first and second grade. The debate over the Common Core’s kindergarten standards drew national attention as critics warn against early drilling and rote work while proponents argue standards promote equity and prevent lag.
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Susan Sluyter
Cambridge, Mass
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Common Core
ELA
Nancy Carlsson-Paige
Lesley University
Finland
Sweden
Kulkarni
Kyle Snow
NAEYC
Constance Kamil
University of Alabama
Kami
DEY
Kamii
Howard Gardner
Harvard
Peter Gray
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