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Channeling L. Ron Hubbard, The Latest in Ed Deform
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| Illustration by Edd Cartier for Hubbard's story "Fear" |
Fox News is not normally one to criticize education reform, not unless a religious cult is profiting from it. In this case, Washington, D.C. schools has approved Applied Scholastics International (ASI) to provide Supplemental Educational Services (SES) to failing schools—
“normal stuff”
A pastor at the church the family attended described it as “normal stuff.”Tonya Thomas Killed Four Kids, Then Herself In Port St. John Shooting, Florida Authorities Say, HuffPo, 5/15/12.
“I think he was punching some walls or something,” said Jarvis Wash, pastor of the Real Church in Rockledge, Fla.
I don’t see “punching walls” as “normal”—that kind of externalized anger and/or frustration can be dangerous to far more fragile stuff than walls. This family had multiple issues but it would be unwise to dismiss this tidbit as irrelevant. It may have had nothing to do with what Tonya Thomas ultimately did but it was something that should
Two Excellent Videos For World History
Here are two excellent videos called “Epic time-lapse map of Europe.” The first one is shorter and doesn’t have dates and other annotations while the second one is longer and has both:
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I'm All Data-Driven Tonight
You know what I've never seen? And I've looked...
I've never seen a chart-- or as they're known now, an infographic-- that shows the difference between the TRS certified state contribution and the amount that the state actually paid, year by year.
I'd like to wave such a chart under a few noses. In fact, I bet that if you develop a few factors, working conservatively, you make an interactive thingy that shows what the state's contribution would be today if the state made its statutory contribution in this year or that year, or during a set of years. Pretty much all you wo
Our Stupid Obsession With Teacher Evaluation, Part 954
Read this whole article.
It's about the stupidity baked into the DNA of the "value-added" approach. Basically, a teacher is punished for her success, and it's a math teacher. She makes a totally valid point about the test:
The material covered on the state eighth-grade math exam is taught in the fifth or sixth grade at Anderson. “I don’t teach the curriculum they’re being tested on,” Abbott explained. “It feels like I’m being graded on somebody else’s work.”
I'm pointing it out because on the reading tests that are used across the land, the same phenomenon happens to basically everyone. Nobody in his/her right mind would teach the activities that reading tests purport to
It's about the stupidity baked into the DNA of the "value-added" approach. Basically, a teacher is punished for her success, and it's a math teacher. She makes a totally valid point about the test:
The material covered on the state eighth-grade math exam is taught in the fifth or sixth grade at Anderson. “I don’t teach the curriculum they’re being tested on,” Abbott explained. “It feels like I’m being graded on somebody else’s work.”
I'm pointing it out because on the reading tests that are used across the land, the same phenomenon happens to basically everyone. Nobody in his/her right mind would teach the activities that reading tests purport to
Anyone know a good lawyer?
I have a question.
If the Illinois Constitution forbids the legislature from diminishing or impairing our pension benefits.
But our union is willing to negotiate that constitutional right away.
But our union does not represent all the members of TRS.
Can our union negotiate for those they do not represent? Are they legally allowed to bargain away constitutional
If the Illinois Constitution forbids the legislature from diminishing or impairing our pension benefits.
But our union is willing to negotiate that constitutional right away.
But our union does not represent all the members of TRS.
Can our union negotiate for those they do not represent? Are they legally allowed to bargain away constitutional
8 students file suit against LAUSD, governor alleging state's tenure laws deprive them of quality education
Posted: 05/15/2012 05:19:41 PM PDT
Updated: 05/15/2012 05:25:12 PM PDT
The lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, seeks to overturn five laws governing teacher tenure, dismissal procedures and seniority-based layoffs - pillars of the teaching profession that have fallen under increasingly sharp criticism but are fiercely protected by unions.
"A handful of outdated laws passed by the California Legislature are preventing school administrators from maintaining or improving the quality of our public educational system by denying them the flexibility to ma
Big Education Ape Nite Cap 5-15-12 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2
James Baldwin said it best:
"For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."
A Big Education Ape Nite Cap
