Category Archives: Educational Reform Movement

Mission Accomplished

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Audrey Hill

At a Teach for America fundraiser,  DFER politician and then Colorado Senator, Mike Johnston, tells a story that will be brief because (he jokes) he doesn’t want to keep his audience from dessert.  He launches into a narrative about a scrappy, young, founding principal … Continue reading →

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Testing the hold a community has on its resources

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Audrey Hill

For some communities, high stakes testing is an unnatural disaster…. It’s a means for quietly but efficiently  transferring wealth away from public schools and into private hands… this is euphemistically called #choice but it is really the choice of no choice. … Continue reading →

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A Meditation on Grit

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Audrey Hill

I believe in the principles of delayed gratification, teaching people to sustain effort through parts of a task that may be boring or difficult.  I agree that we do not sufficiently prepare for it.  It isn’t necessary that all work … Continue reading →

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Remediating the Numbers

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Audrey Hill

According to Out of Pocket, writers, Mary Nguyen Barry & Michael Dannenberg, writing for Education Reform Now (ERN), American education isn’t making the grade.  Their premise is that students from all income levels have need for college level remediation courses arguably because … Continue reading →

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Subtext on Tenure

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Audrey Hill

Okay, listen up, everybody who isn’t anybody.  America needs you for lower wages, unrealistic performance expectations and life stealing labor.  Also, we need to remove you when you’re close to retirement.  It’s a pension win win for us. Stop whining. … Continue reading →

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Fake Bill Gates Says Your Boss Doesn’t Have Tenure (part 2)

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Audrey Hill

Tenure FakeGates suggests that tenure is a weakening influence.  Teachers have it, but your boss doesn’t which is why he’s a tough S.O.B.  So what is this tenure?  It’s another word for job security, and, apparently, it makes you soft.  In America, job security … Continue reading →

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Fake Bill Gates Says Your Boss Doesn’t Have Tenure (part 1)

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Audrey Hill

LifeHack recently promoted what was billed as a Bill Gates quote.  It wasn’t.  But, it goes, “If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss.  He doesn’t have tenure.” When I first read it, the last line sounded … Continue reading →

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On Being the Change You Want to See

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Audrey Hill

What follows is an open letter to a young teacher, Marilyn Rhames, who wrote for Ed Week in a piece called A Course of My Own about her experience in a hostile school environment with a principal who was vicious … Continue reading →

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Don’t Collaborate through Sabotage

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Audrey Hill

I just finished reading Timothy Slekar’s post It’s Not Cheating It’s Sabotage in the Huff.  And I must disagree with the notion that we can acceptably change answers in a random way to discredit the test.  Such an action only … Continue reading →

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The One Right Answer

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Audrey Hill

Every summer, I revamp my curriculum.   It’s not that I don’t already have a curriculum that works, but every year I can think of things I’d like to do differently or did something differently the past year that I’d like … Continue reading →

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