Cartoon: Hard Times For Competitive Spelling “Lisa, competitive spelling has fallen on hard times.” *Paris Review* founder George Plimpton gets Lisa’s hopes up before ditching her for nerdboy Alex as face of competitive spelling’s future. (From the Lisa Simpson Book Club)
Thompson: Marking Kids "Present" To Raise Pass Rates [image: Passemon] As classroom teachers we used to dread "the memo" that would be triggered if more than 20% of students failed a class. Then one year, a dean discovered the concept of "standard deviation," and we got the memo if more than 17% ...
Green Dot: Locke Rescue Effort Continues Succeeding [image: image from www.greendot.org] Some of the folks at Green Dot were disappointed in my recent interview on Southern California – especially around the issue of progress that’s been made, which I described as substantial but not miraculous and ...
People: Breakup Of Vander Ark / Ratcliff Partnership [image: ScreenHunter_05 Jun. 01 21.39]ReformLand isn't always the smooth-running well-funded monotheism that it appears to be from the outside. Word went out on Friday that VA/R Partners -- the partnership between Bennet Ratcliff and Tom Vander Ark ...
Media: Journalism Group Revamps, Restaffs [image: image from www.calebbooker.com]Working on maintaining its position in a fast-moving media landscape, the Education Writers Association announced two new hires this morning: Kenneth Terrell, former managing editor for education at U.S. News ...
