I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.

By now it should seem painfully obvious that a student’s performance in school is the result of many factors, environmental as well as physical and mental.  However, supporters of No Child Left Behind incorrectly assume that if they can change the way schools function and assess their students, test scores and proficiency will rise.  And that’s [...]

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Liam Julian wrote in his article, “Michigan’s Tests Leave Children Behind,” from the Detroit News, that Michigan’s testing standards are not on par with the rest of the nation, and that they are not consistent throughout the grade levels.  This leads to a “proficiency gap,” where parents think their children are doing well in school [...]

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Yep, you read that right.  No Child Left behind is getting revamped to include more common sense, to help out special education students and those students who are learning English.  According to Michael Petrilli, an expert on NCLB,
“The No Child Left Behind law was not well designed for the two groups of students.  They are [...]

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Rather than traveling to Lansing to take part in the MCTE conference like some of my classmates, I chose to go to James Shapiro’s lecture on Shakespeare and then Grand Valley’s performance of Cymbeline. I had read a chapter of Shapiro’s book, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, 1599 for another class, [...]

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