Hannah Emmanuele

“Why are some kids crying when they do homework these days?”  According to award winning principal, Carol Burris, as reported in the Washington Post:   emphasis added my own

Many educators are concerned that the Common Core standards are developmentally inappropriate.  Award winning principal Carol Burris and Assistant Principal John Murphy offer another example in today’s Washington Post: A few days ago, our superintendent shared a Common Core assessment ...

One of the biggest challenges educators face is figuring out how to integrate new media fluencies into the culture of our schools.  University of Southern California media scholar Henry Jenkins describes how educators might fuel civic engagement by tapping the ...

Are we heading toward a world of radical disparity?  The days of getting a great job based on a resume, a college degree and good references clearly are gone.  As more and more complex cognitive work is automated, and workers ...

The people who score our children’s essays on standardized tests every year apparently work in sweat shops, staffed with waitresses, laid off factory workers and life slackers, and are driven by deceptive/unethical rubric and scoring practices.  From the Twin Cities’ ...

Amid growing concerns about the implementation of new education initiatives, many school districts in New York are withdrawing or planning to withdraw from the Common Core State Standards and testing, despite the likelihood of losing related State funding for their ...

The School Board of one of Louisiana’s highest-performing school districts passed a resolution on October 10, 2013, to drop out of the Common Core State Standards and to not administer the new PARCC assessments,  the new national standardized tests for ...