How Budget Cuts Hurt Real Children
Joy Resmovits of the Huffington Post is quickly becoming established as among the very best education journalists in the nation.
She is thoughtful, clear, and gathers the facts judiciously.
In this article, she shows the immense damage done to children by budget cuts.
Budget cuts invariably mean laying off teachers, since teachers’ salaries are
She is thoughtful, clear, and gathers the facts judiciously.
In this article, she shows the immense damage done to children by budget cuts.
Budget cuts invariably mean laying off teachers, since teachers’ salaries are
A Different Perspective from England
A reader in the U.K. points out that education issues in the U.S. and U.K. have evolved differently. I am not sure that other readers in the U.K. would agree. There, as here, we have debates about how to educate, what to teach, and who should be in charge. When I visited London a few years ago, I toured “city academies,” which are schools that the government “gives” to wealthy businessmen who are willing to put up about $2 million dollars to build a facility; those I saw were oriented toward vo-tech studies. That seemed to me a clear movement towards privatization.
I don’t know which country is leading and which is following, or whether
I don’t know which country is leading and which is following, or whether
Michelle Rhee’s Shameless Ad, Again
I recently wrote a post about Michelle Rhee’s “Olympics” ad, in which she shows a flabby man doing rhythmic gymnastics and falling down because he is in such bad shape. This is supposed to be American education, in her view.
I wrote that she was ridiculing obesity and insulting our students, our teachers, our schools, and presenting a humiliating picture of America to the world.
A reader wrote to say that the ad is also homophobic, and on reviewing, I agree. The man in the ad is engaged in
I wrote that she was ridiculing obesity and insulting our students, our teachers, our schools, and presenting a humiliating picture of America to the world.
A reader wrote to say that the ad is also homophobic, and on reviewing, I agree. The man in the ad is engaged in
Remember When Charters Were Supposed to Cost Less?
If you are a historian, you have to have a long memory or know where to find out what you need to know.
I remember when charters first started. One of the arguments that charter advocates made was that they would cost less; they would be more efficient and would save the taxpayers’ money. After all, they wouldn’t have all those administrators and overhead found in public schools.
But as time goes by, charters are forgetting the original promise (they never made them) and demanding parity
I remember when charters first started. One of the arguments that charter advocates made was that they would cost less; they would be more efficient and would save the taxpayers’ money. After all, they wouldn’t have all those administrators and overhead found in public schools.
But as time goes by, charters are forgetting the original promise (they never made them) and demanding parity
Why Stability Matters
When I was interviewed on the Charlie Rose a while back, the interviewee who preceded me was the CEO of a major corporation in the high-tech sector. As I listened to him, I headed him say again and again, “We have to constantly re-invent ourselves. We re-invent ourselves every few years, or we die.”
I understand why that would be true in the fast-moving, ever-changing world of high technology. If you don’t come up with new products, faster ways of doing things, new applications, new paradigms, etc., you are lef
I understand why that would be true in the fast-moving, ever-changing world of high technology. If you don’t come up with new products, faster ways of doing things, new applications, new paradigms, etc., you are lef
Minneapolis Charter Doesn’t Want Special Needs Students
The Minneapolis School Board closed down Cityview, one of its public schools whose test scores were too low,it replaced Cityview with a charter school, Minneapolis School of Science. The charter school has told the families of 40 children with special needs–children with Down Syndrome and autism–that they are not wanted at the school. Clearly the schools is bouncing these children to improve their test scores.
Is this what “no child left behind” means? Does it mean pushing out the most vulnerable children to inflate the
Is this what “no child left behind” means? Does it mean pushing out the most vulnerable children to inflate the