Shaun Johnson

Punk music is not something you read about too often in educational circles. Yet, I've wondered on many occasions punk's effect on my thinking or the ways I've approached my teaching.

I'm worried that parental resistance of standardized testing will become part of the rationale for greater school choice, which in extreme cases is antithetical to public education.

Even as someone who engages in the more scientific or theoretical aspects of teaching, I start to wonder if we really want to go all in here with this very techno-rational mentality.

In order for the United States to remain economically competitive and "win our future," so to speak, we must ensure that we have and maintain a healthy workforce.

I've lately decided to be a bit more, I don't know, explicit with my resistance of mainstream education reform.

I'm convinced that unless something changes dramatically, the end of public education in America is inevitable.

My joining the education blogosphere, even in my own limited way, connected me with more like-minded -- and not so like-minded -- folks in education than I could have imagined.

Let us pretend that physicians of all specialties were held to similar measures of accountability and enveloped with the same kinds of discourses that we see in education reform debates. What might that look like?

In terms of men in education, we need more guys to man up rather than man down. Statistical realities have demonstrated the critical absence of men in the classroom with no signs of change.

Imagine if a bunch of parents and community members got together and refused to allow their students or children to take the state tests

With high-stakes standardized testing, this is the educational culture we've created. Seeing schools in test-mode is an observation in a disheartening obsession with quantitative values.