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Gadfly on the Wall: Standardized Tests Lie

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Steven Singer

December 13, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Teaching in Pennsylvania’s Unconstitutional School Funding System

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Steven Singer

November 20, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: If You Don’t Want Teachers to be Saviors, Don’t Put Them on a Cross

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Steven Singer

November 14, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: If You Don’t Want Teachers to be Saviors, Don’t Put Them on a Cross

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Steven Singer

October 31, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: The Hidden Bias Against Male Teachers

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Steven Singer

October 18, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Teaching Blind Obedience is Child Abuse

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Steven Singer

September 6, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Efforts to Legalize Child Labor Are the Next Logical Step After Corporate Education Reform

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Steven Singer

August 22, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Disaster Capitalists Try Ending the Teacher Exodus by Erasing Experienced Educators

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Steven Singer

July 24, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Student Projects Are Better Than Tests

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Steven Singer

June 28, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Stay Woke, Public School Teachers

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Steven Singer

June 5, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: I Am a Charter School Abolitionist, and You Should Be, Too

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Steven Singer

May 12, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Standardized Tests Hurt Asian-American Students, Too, Though Many Get High Scores

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Steven Singer

April 17, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: A Private Equity Firm, the Makers of the MAP Test, and an Ed Tech Publisher Join Forces

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Steven Singer

February 21, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Artificially Intelligent Chatbots Will Not Replace Teachers

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Steven Singer

February 1, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: School Vouchers Don’t Increase Academics; They Increase Bigotry

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Steven Singer

January 20, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: The Teacher Exodus Continues Whether You Care or Not

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Steven Singer

December 19, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Standardized Test Scores are Incompatible With Your School’s Equity Plan

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Steven Singer

December 7, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: The Racist Origins of Standardized Testing Still Matter

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Steven Singer

November 15, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: When Good Students Get Bad Standardized Test Scores

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Steven Singer

November 8, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Why Even the Best Charter Schools are Fundamentally Inequitable

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Steven Singer

October 26, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: The MAP Test – Selling Schools Unnecessary Junk at Student Expense

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Steven Singer

October 6, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Why is a Gates-Funded, Anti-Union, Charter Advocacy Group Part of Pennsylvania’s New Plan to Stop the Teacher Exodus?

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Steven Singer

August 29, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Federal or State Legislatures May Raise Teacher Salaries So Schools Have Enough Staff to Reopen

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Steven Singer

August 3, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: Top 5 Charter School Myths Debunked

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Steven Singer

June 6, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Covid Has Hobbled Public Schools. Here’s Why They’re Worth Saving

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Steven Singer

May 18, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Every Teacher Knows

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Steven Singer

April 11, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: The Same People Who Think Antiracists Have Gone Too Far Think Standardized Testing Hasn’t Gone Far Enough

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Steven Singer

February 9, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Teachers Absorb Student Trauma But Don’t Know How to Get Rid of the Pain

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Steven Singer

January 20, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Stop Normalizing the Exploitation of Teachers

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Steven Singer

January 11, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Reducing Students to Their Test Scores Will Only Increase Their Pandemic Wounds

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Steven Singer

December 10, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: My Students Haven’t Lost Learning. They’ve Lost Social and Emotional Development

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Steven Singer

November 29, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: If You’re Afraid Kids Will Learn Racism is Bad, Perhaps Public School is Not For You

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Steven Singer

November 11, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Why Does Your Right to Unmask Usurp My Child’s Right to a Safe School?

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Steven Singer

September 7, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Economists Worry Covid-19 May End Standardized Testing Altogether

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Steven Singer

August 19, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Public Schools Are Not Indoctrinating Kids About Racism. Voucher Schools ARE

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Steven Singer

July 13, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Top 6 Administrative Failures of the Pandemic Classroom

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Steven Singer

June 17, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Diversity is the Most Important Reason to Save Public Schools

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Steven Singer

May 25, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: The Year Without Standardized Testing

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Steven Singer

May 10, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Let the Children Play – My Prescription for Covid “Learning Loss”

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Steven Singer

May 5, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Standardized Testing During a Pandemic is Stupid. And Cruel.

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Steven Singer

April 15, 2021

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