Saturday coffee.
A slight dusting of snow fell overnight.
This morning it is sunny, windy and crisp.
Matthew and Harley are running a half marathon along the Lakefront.
I think that’s crazy for a whole bunch of reasons. But Matthew and Harley love running and are in great shape.
Beating the unions with the unions’ help. ALEC calls teachers Nazis.
ALEC calls teacher unions Nazis.
As state after state rewrites their education laws in line with the mandates from Race to the Top and the NCLB waiver process, the teaching profession is being redefined. Teachers will now pay the price – be declared successes or failures, depending on the rise or fall of their students’ test scores. Under NCLB it was schools that were declared failures. In states being granted waivers to NCLB, it is teachers who will be subjected to this ignominy. Of course we will still be required to label the bottom 5% of our schools as failures, but if the
Old school.
The Five Stairsteps.
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