https://bluecerealeducation.com Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:12:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/blue-serials-week-february-1st-2020/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 18:39:36 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/blue-serials-week-february-1st-2020/ It’s been a weird 2020 so far in education news. As I’m sure you’ve already heard, President Trump announced that starting now, he’s going to allow students to pray in public schools if they so choose. He’s also going to institute a system whereby religious student organizations can meet on school grounds, as long as schools grant that access equitably to all Christian denominations. He’s calling this policy, “The First Amendment.”

]]> 513 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/we-are-building-religion/ Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:55:27 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/we-are-building-religion/ Behold the wisdom of Pearson and its ilk. They’re not out to win an argument – they’re offering to scratch an itch, to meet an apparent need. They have easy answers – textbooks which work in any state that’s not Texas, assessments which, because they’re online, somehow guarantee students have entered modernity, and suites of ancillaries, strategies, terminologies, and priorities. It saves so much time compared to wading through specific student abilities or needs, and if you order today they’ll throw in a new sense of progressive identity and an assortment of Twitter-ready platitudes. We are building a religion; we are making a brand...]]> 96