Mark Pennington's Blog – July 2009 Archive (1)

This may well be professional suicide. But, it’s time to come out of the closet. I say I teach the standards, but I really teach children.



As an educational publisher and author, I sell books that address state and national standards in English-language Arts and reading. The standards-based movement has clearly taken over the publishing and educational establishment. For example, in California, a district cannot purchase programs with state-allocated district monies… Continue