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- Public records/Public Disclosure Commission compla...
- Saxon Math Placement Tests (Free)
- CCSS and RTTT: Nationalizing public education
- Students: Their daily reality
- Administrator denial, deceit, and interference
- Group Discount for "Betrayed": Invite Laurie Roger...
- Guest articles
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More Past Articles from "Betrayed"
- 2008 pass rates in math indicate need for change
- 2010 pass rates on math tests shocking
- Accountability, transparency desperately needed
- Administrators no help at math forum
- Administrators won't answer curriculum questions in writing
- Administrators, board members need reality check
- AP view at odds with universities
- 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
- CAC: Administrators brush off math concerns in meeting devoted to math concerns
- CCSS & RTTT: Common Core State Standards and Race to the Top -- Laurie's articles and other information
- 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)
- College placement hindered by in-state tuition, weak K-12 system
- Constructivism & lack of practice
- Delphi Technique and Consensus
- Demand the respect you're owed
- District distributes campaign materials to students
- District not replacing math materials for two more years
- District not replacing reform curricula
- 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
- Guest: "What I See" - parent tells heartbreaking tale
- Guest: Grammar problems caused by "hyper-constructivism"
- Guest: Lies, damn lies and the myth of standardized tests
- Guest: Teaching grammar enhances creative writing
- Guest: Teaching in Korea, he's good guy
- Guest: Why I quit teaching math at SFCC
- Help students by rejecting self-interested
- Hold district accountable for deceit, academic failures
- Is Spokane Public Schools a "dropout factory"?
- It's the curriculum
- Many distractions; little time
- Media, district levy advocacy not appropriate, not leadership
- Newspapers neglect critical PDC issues
- Paper pursues political agenda as it accuses teacher of political agenda
- Papers display agenda and poor skills in attacking teacher
- Parents can't get answers
- Parents have the power
- Politics driving math classes, not equity, justice or math
- Poverty NOT the problem with K-12 math
- Public accountability missing
- Public records prompt PDC complaint
- Remedial rates: Spokane's big, dirty secret
- Research on traditional instruction vs. reform
- Seattle teacher discusses challenges teachers face
- Social promotion fails students
- Spokane "tale of two cities" - I live in the other one
- 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 the education budget for lawsuits?
- What's the purpose of public education?
- What's Wrong with Education?
- Why administrators don't listen
- Yes, ask questions about the levies
- Your child's education is up to you
Resources for Alternatives. Inclusion is a courtesy, not an endorsement. Please do "due diligence."
- American Indian Public Charter School - CA
- Center for Talented Youth - JHU - MD
- Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy - ID
- Columbia Virtual Academy - WA
- EA2 - Seattle, Bellevue, Sammamish
- 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
- Khan Academy math videos
- KIPP Schools - 20 states and DC
- 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 Home Scholars, Spokane
- Washington Charter School Resource Center - WA
- Washington Homeschool Organization
- Washington Student Math Association
- Westgate Christian School - Spokane, WA
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 two 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
- CCPS Math - MD
- CCUSD Watch - AZ
- Clayton Math Matters - MO
- CURE - WA
- 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
- 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
- National Institute for Direct Instruction
- National Mathematics Advisory Panel Final Report
- NJ Coalition for World Class Math
- Norton News - UT
- NYCHOLD - NY
- Parents for Math Choice - OR
- Parents for Quality Math Education - PA
- Partnership for Kids
- PWC Education Reform - VA
- PWC Teach Math Right - VA
- Saxon Math Warrior - TX
- Science.org
- Seattle Education 2010 - WA
- Seattle Public Schools Community Blog - WA
- Skooled - Ben Chavis
- STOP TERC - MD
- The Cartel
- The Illinois Loop - IL
- The Math Underground - WA
- TIME - This is Math?
- 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: "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"
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