An Injection of Stupid
See, this here is what I'm talking about. Why would a writer for EdWeek, supposedly a "serious" forum for education policy discussion, ever link to a piece of sexist inanity like this?
The "Girlie Man" culture teaches government dependency. Government schools are in the business of turning the next generation into social parasites. Where would the next crop of union teachers and careerist administrators come from if they are not trained to be a government welfare recipient in the public school system? Surely having to get a real job in the business world does not fit into the scheme of entitled government employees.Stopping this rip off should be self-evident. However, the lack of guts to abolish public education demonstrates the triumph of folly over prudence. Home schooling avoids theThe Definition of Insanity
...is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result:In 2007, New York City and its teachers union launched an experiment to determine whether rewarding teachers with extra cash would boost student performance.Four years and $57 million later, the answer appears to be no. Backers of incentive pay are blaming the way New York's program was structured, and school and union officials are pointing fingers at each other.The hope was that the program would result in improved student test scores. But scores didn't budge, according to two studies, and the city recently suspended the program. The Department
