Yes! Beautifully put and makes me miss both Ethiopia and my little bit of Ethiopia here in the US.
Archive for February, 2015
9 Feb
Curing the Reading GERM by Jim Bailey
Ahhhh…this blog fills me with hope!
Four years ago I was ready to leave education. I loved my school, I loved my principal, I loved my colleagues, and most of all I loved my students. Unfortunately, I was infected with a GERM, as Pasi Sahlberg calls it, the Global Education Reform Movement. The obsession with high stakes testing, lack of autonomy in the classroom, and general standardization of education was forcing me to reevaluate my career path. I was most affected by this GERM in the area of teaching reading, if you could even call what I was doing teaching reading. It would have been better titled, “Accelerated Reader time,” or “Over teaching a novel class,” or “Everyone read the same boring excerpt and complete workbook pages period.” Whatever it was, it definitely was not reading. Luckily, several people in my life had also been infected with this GERM and they knew the cure. They had…
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The Power of One Writer 