Campbell Brown calls herself a journalist. But more importantly to my role as educator, she's involved in a couple of initiatives that are pro charter school and more than a tad anti-public school. On the Colbert Report  (on which she is called an "education reform advocate"), she made a couple of statements that I'd love to ask her about, so off I go to her facebook page ready to engage in conversation! Silly me! The number of comments is clearly visible on each post, but I can't see them. Wondering why, but I commented anyway, Now, I can see mine but still no others. The number of comments is growing ,and still I can only see mine! Well, now I can also see a friend's comments too. Thank you Malinda! I find it strange that a woman associated with a group called  The Parents' Transparency Group is not transparent. Oh, the irony.  So what is Campbell Brown actually hiding? If her project is so worthy, why isn't she engaging the educational community at...

  Shepherd: Instead of Mandatory Standards for All . Short post (and would someone please listen to him!):   Robert D. Shepherd answers a fundamental question about the Common Core: “Question: What should we have instead of a single set of mandatory standards for all? “Answer: Competing, voluntary standards that can serve as guidelines to be followed, or not, by independent, site-managed schools in which teachers make their own decisions about what should be taught, when, and to whom.”