5 catchiest (and most annoying) reform phrases
This was written by Roxanna Elden, the author of See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers . She teaches high-school English in Miami and is a National Board Certified Teacher. This piece first appeared on Rick Hess’s blog, Straight Up, on the Education Week website.
By Roxanna Elden
Thre is a growing assumption that education reformers are anti-teacher and teachers are anti-reform. Disagreements between these groups have become so heated and so public recently that this seems like a reasonable conclusion.
Read full article >>Veterans Day: No apostrophe in ‘veterans’ and other facts
Veterans Day started on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
Actually, the holiday was first called Armistice Day, declared to mark the end of World War I hostilities at 11 a.m., Nov. 11, 1918 .Congress gave it that name in 1926, though it didn’t become a national holiday for a dozen more years.
Read full article >>Education Department investigating Penn State
(This post has been updated.)
The U.S. Department of Education is launching an investigation into the scandal at Penn State University to see if officials there failed to comply with a law that requires institutions of higher education to disclose criminal offenses that occur on campus each year.
The department issued a statement Wednesday saying it was launching the probe in relation to the scandal in which former defensive coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing a number of young boys over a period of years, including incidents on campus. A number of school officials were told about at least one of the incidents after they happened, but the police were never called.
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