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Betrayed is designed to inform the public about critical education issues affecting students, teachers, community members, and the country. Site author Laurie Rogers, wlroge@comcast.net, also is the author of Betrayed: How the Education Establishment Has Betrayed America and What You Can Do About It (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011). Please help parents and teachers take back the classroom from those who have stolen it. Write to Laurie Rogers at wlroge@comcast.net.
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Blog Archive By Topic
- In defense of traditional math: What is reform math, anyway?
- Saxon Math and Singapore Math Placement Tests and Curricula (Free)
- Summer math class: Using humor to illustrate the truth of K-12 public education
- Satires from Laurie Rogers
- CCSS and RTTT: Nationalizing public education
- Public education in America: Shrill, tyrannical, arrogant, antagonistic, academically incompetent, deceitful, politically biased, and ridiculously expensive
- Academic outcomes in math for Spokane Public Schools
- Students: Their daily reality
- Administrator denial, deceit, and interference
- All of That Money
- Capital costs and debt service for Spokane Public Schools
- Legal fees for Spokane Public Schools not apparent in the budget
- Accountability for public agencies via the Public Records Act
- Accountability for public agencies via the Public Disclosure Commission
- Print media coverage of K-12 education
- Guest articles
Blog Archive By Date
More Past Articles from "Betrayed"
- 2008 pass rates in math indicate need for change
- 2010 pass rates on math tests shocking
- AP view at odds with universities
- Accountability, transparency desperately needed
- Administrative plan for math is to fix the math program later
- Administrators no help at math forum
- Administrators won't answer curriculum questions in writing
- Administrators, board members need reality check
- America's math problem: What is it, what will it do to America?
- Barbie and Jim Brady agree: Math is hard
- Birth of reform = demise of skills
- Blame math problem on administrators
- Board directors, superintendent show disrespect to teachers, union
- Board meeting yields few answers
- Board vote good for business
- Budget forums showcase half-truths, contempt for the public
- CAC: Administrators brush off math concerns in meeting devoted to math concerns
- Celesta: District blames her for gaps in math skills (part 2)
- Celesta: District rejects efforts to help her (part 3)
- Celesta: Who cares about her? (part 1)
- Children are key to America's future. The government wants control of that key.
- College placement hindered by in-state tuition, weak K-12 system
- Common Core leading districts to adopt unproved math programs and failed approaches
- Constructivism & lack of practice
- Delphi Technique and Consensus
- Demand the respect you're owed
- District finally admits math curriculum problem, but adopts another unproved curriculum
- District not replacing math materials for two more years
- District not replacing reform curricula
- District scans driver's licenses and takes photos in new "sign-in" policy
- District tries to silence dissenting voices
- District wants data system and money. Taxpayers want academics and accountability.
- District: No one knows how to fix problem
- Education flux is barrier to truth
- Establishment rebuffs concerns
- Good golly, our schools need new leadership
- Help students by rejecting self-interested
- High school math teacher exposes the high-stakes testing myth
- High school math teacher offers suggestions for improving math instruction
- Hold district accountable for deceit, academic failures
- Hold education bureaucracy accountable, or lose your right to do it
- How we could fix public education, and why it won't happen
- In defense of direct instruction: Constant constructivism, group work, arrogant attitude are abusive
- In defense of long division: Pro-reform professor capably shows why reform math doesn't work
- In defense of proper process: Reform methods lead to lost info and incorrect answers
- In defense of public-records requesters
- In defense of the number line: Reform methods fail on decimals, fractions ... and negatives
- In defense of vertical multiplication: Reform methods stumble over decimals
- Is Spokane Public Schools a "dropout factory"?
- It's the curriculum
- Leadership filled with predators, sheep. Where are sheepdogs?
- Legislators, school districts outlaw children
- Legislature and lawsuit help public education go in wrong direction. Again.
- Legislature should look into PDC's investigation of Spokane Public Schools
- Many distractions; little time
- Myth of the Helpless Parent
- Parents can't get answers
- Parents have the power
- Political indoctrination replacing academics as the mission of K-12 public education
- Politics driving math classes, not equity, justice or math
- Poverty NOT the problem with K-12 math
- Public accountability missing
- Public education's "culture of power": Small minds, thin skins, fragile egos
- Reframing the Common Core: A battle for our freedom
- Remedial rates: Spokane's big, dirty secret
- Research on traditional instruction vs. reform
- Secretary of Education displays arrogant, anti-parent sentiment
- Several school leaders refuse to say why they're adopting unproven products
- Social promotion fails students
- Spokane "tale of two cities" - I live in the other one
- Spokane print media failing all of us, especially the children
- Stop fighting lost causes; start talking with the people
- Student data: The truth of Spokane's math program
- Students learn by being taught
- Students need you to speak up
- Teacher training is a problem
- Teachers and parents: Take back the classroom from those who have stolen it
- Teachers are afraid to speak out
- The "Laws" of Learning
- The Lake Wobegon Effect? Or deceit by omission?
- What about those who don't pass
- What's Wrong with Education?
- What's the education budget for lawsuits?
- What's the purpose of public education?
- Why administrators don't listen
- Your child's education is up to you
Resources for Alternatives. Inclusion is a courtesy, not an endorsement. Please do "due diligence."
- All Saints Catholic School - Spokane
- American Indian Public Charter School - CA
- Assumption Parison School - Spokane
- Center for Talented Youth - JHU - MD
- Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy - ID
- Columbia Virtual Academy - WA
- Do the Math tutoring - Spokane, WA
- EA2 - Seattle, Bellevue, Sammamish
- Free tutoring in K-12 math at Gonzaga University
- Gonzaga Preparatory School - Spokane
- Grammar and Writing - by Stephen Hake, co-author of Saxon Math
- Green Dot Public Schools - CA
- Harlem Children's Zone - NY
- Indian Math Online
- KIPP Schools - 20 states and DC
- Khan Academy math videos
- Kumon Learning Centers
- Saxon Math Algebra I Placement Test
- Saxon Math Algebra II Placement Test
- Saxon Math Placement Test Middle School (Grades 4-8)
- Saxon Math Placement Test Primary (Grades K-3)
- Saxon Math Placement Test Upper Grades (Grades 9-12)
- Saxon Math Textbook Series - from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Singapore Math
- Singapore Math (Free) Placement Tests
- Spokane Christian Academy - WA
- St. Aloysius Catholic School - Spokane, WA
- St. Mary's Catholic School - Spokane, WA
- Sylvan Learning Centers
- The Homeschool Book Shop - Spokane, WA
- The Oaks - Spokane, WA
- Valley Christian School
- Valley Home Scholars, Spokane
- Washington Charter School Resource Center - WA
- Washington Homeschool Organization
- Washington Student Math Association
- Westgate Christian School - Spokane, WA
- iXL - math and English practice
About the Author
- Laurie H. Rogers
- Laurie Rogers has a degree in mass communication and a master’s in interpersonal communication, emphasizing the evaluation of argumentation and logic. In 2001, she founded Safer Child, an online information resource. In 2007, she narrowed her advocacy to public education, and in 2010, she founded Focus on the Square™, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving American K-12 education.
Laurie's book Betrayed: How the Education Establishment Has Betrayed America and What You Can Do about It (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011) is available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Besides serving on the executive committee for Where's the Math?, Laurie has a background in finance, journalism and child advocacy. She has volunteered in schools - tutoring children in literacy and math, and teaching chess, argumentation and knitting. She lives in Spokane with her husband, daughter and three cats.
Laurie speaks with advocates, teachers and parents every day. She would like to specially acknowledge those who stand tall in the face of administrative deceit or stonewalling -- and who remain committed to making a difference for the children. Bravo.
Other Advocates & Links
- "Autonomy, Choice and Competition" - Success in Alberta
- "Stupid in America" - 20/20
- "Teaching General Problem-Solving Skills Is Not a Substitute for, or a Viable Addition to, Teaching Mathematics" - Sweller/Clark/Kirschner
- "Why Minimal Guidance Doesn't Work" - Kirschner/Sweller/Clark
- A Manifesto Against the Nationalization of Public Education -- Please sign
- BAM Radio interview with Laurie Rogers
- By the Numbers - CT
- CCPS Math - MD
- CCUSD Watch - AZ
- CURE - WA
- Clayton Math Matters - MO
- Ed Policy - Bill Evers
- Education Consumers Foundation - TN
- EducationNews.org
- EducationNews.org interview with Laurie Rogers
- Evergreen Freedom Foundation - Education Reform
- Facebook -- Find "Betrayed" on Facebook
- Flunked - the movie
- Fox C-6 Watchdogs - MO
- Frederick Education Reform - MD
- Heritage Foundation panel on the CCSS
- Improve-Education.org
- It's Action Time - Vancouver, WA
- Jay P. Greene's blog
- Keep Eanes Informed - TX
- Kennewick School District Citizens - WA
- Kitchen Table Math - NY
- Maine Center for Constitutional Studies
- Math Doesn't Suck
- Mathematically Correct - CA
- Mathematically Sound Foundations - WA
- Mathematics Education
- Missouri Education Watchdog - MO
- Missouri Math Coalition - MO
- NJ Coalition for World Class Math
- NYCHOLD - NY
- National Institute for Direct Instruction
- National Mathematics Advisory Panel Final Report
- Norton News - UT
- PWC Education Reform - VA
- PWC Teach Math Right - VA
- Parents for Math Choice - OR
- Parents for Quality Math Education - PA
- STOP TERC - MD
- STOP the federal takeover of education - Preserve Innocence
- Saxon Math Warrior - TX
- Science.org
- Seattle Education 2010 - WA
- Seattle Public Schools Community Blog - WA
- Skooled - Ben Chavis
- Stop the Common Core video series - GA
- TIME - This is Math?
- The Cartel
- The Illinois Loop - IL
- The Math Underground - WA
- Truth in American Education
- United States Coalition for World Class Math
- Weapons of Math Destruction
- What Works Clearinghouse
- Where's the Math: Bellingham?
- Where's the Math? - WA
- Youtube video - John Saxon, on calculators
- Youtube video - John Saxon, on math instruction
- Youtube video series on The Common Core State Standards - excellent quality
- Youtube video: "A mom talks with the director of special education"
- Youtube video: "Math education: An inconvenient truth"
- Youtube video: "WASL I mean HSPE ... no, not exactly"
- Youtube video: Miss America parody
- Youtube video: Taylor Mali on "What Teachers Make"
