Author Archives: Audrey Hill

As society continues to debate the policy of publicly flogging teachers and schools with the scores of their children (starting at the age of five), and as parents consider whether or not to allow the state to so use their … Continue reading →

Dear Mr. Tillotson, I read your article on Education Post. Bravo for the good, but your statistics are not conclusive and you left out some issues that I think deserve a little sunlight. I would welcome your comments. Class based … Continue reading →

Public schools are like busy traffic circles that have stop signs, bus stops, on and off ramps, red lights, passing lanes, pot holes and all sorts of other navigational hazards. There are many different types of vehicles and many different … Continue reading →

If you don’t count undeserving people in high places or a burgeoning education reform industry of paid tweeters, bloggers and think tank thinkers, high stakes testing, known ironically as accountability,  is currently among the most unaccountable of unaccountable things in American education today.  It … Continue reading →

It started with that small firestorm about the Duluth cartoon… canonized at the74 by Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN…  when it became clear that acknowledging the burdens that children come in with is labeling them. And it built up as the #thisteachersees … Continue reading →

Dear @juscohen, So what’s a teachers job then? Unconnected to whether the kids can meet a high bar? I’m going to answer your questions although you may not have meant them to be answered. Nonetheless,  like Charlie Brown and his football… … Continue reading →

Dear Teachers, We’d like to have better conversation.  We want to work cooperatively with you to bring better education to America.  #marketbased Let’s start with what we’ve got. We’ve got… Change You Can Believe In. Here are a few facts: 1) … Continue reading →