How The Common Core Hurts Kids As Readers And Writers by Ann Policelli Cronin
Educator, public education advocate and fellow education blogger takes on the notion that the Common Core is good for children in her blog entitled, P.S. How The Common Core Hurts Kids As Readers And...
View ArticleREQUIRING THE SAT GETS CONNECTICUT LESS THAN NOTHING (By Ann Cronin)
Repost from Ann Cronin’s blog… Big News! It was on the front page of the The Hartford Courant, reported on in all the other state newspapers, and featured on the Connecticut State Department of...
View ArticleClosing Connecticut’s Real Achievement Gap (By Ann Cronin)
So what is the answer to closing Connecticut’s Achievement Gap? Educator, education advocate and fellow education blogger Ann Cronin lays out the real solutions for Connecticut’s schools in her latest...
View ArticleRelay Is A Very Bad Joke-One That Hurts Kids (By Ann Cronin)
Writing on her blog, Real Learning CT, educator, education advocate and education blogger Ann Cronin explains; The Relay Graduate School of Education recently applied to be a graduate school of...
View ArticleWhen you ask the wrong questions, you can’t possibly get the right answers....
The Mastery Examination Task Force, whose report about student assessment in our public schools is due to come out soon, has asked all the wrong questions. We, therefore, can’t have any confidence in...
View ArticleBetsy DeVos — A clear and present danger by Ann Policelli Cronin
First published in CT Mirror, educator and advocate Ann Policelli Cronin highlights what she learned from watching three hours of the Senate confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos as Secretary of...
View ArticlePublic Schools: Who Is Failing Whom? A MUST READ by Ann P Cronin
Education advocate and fellow education blogger, Ann Cronin, has written another powerful piece, this time asking who is failing whom when it comes to the nation’s public schools. Ann Cronin writes; If...
View ArticleTeacher Evaluation: Let’s Get It Right (By Ann Cronin)
First published on her blog and in the CT Mirror, Connecticut educator Ann Cronin writes: An editorial in The Hartford Courant (April, 23, 2017) entitled “ Back to Squishy Teacher Evals” argued for...
View ArticleLet’s Make History by Ann Cronin
Efforts to improve K-12 education over the past 30 years have produced a bipartisan mess. In the excerpt below, Diane Ravitch describes how Democrats have contributed in substantive ways to that mess....
View ArticleSomething Is Rotten In The State Of Connecticut by Ann Cronin
In her latest blog post, educator and education advocate Ann Cronin reports on Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy and his administration’s loyalty to the charter school industry and their latest attack on...
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