What Is the Boston Consulting Group?
There is a new scandal in New York City. It seems the New York City Housing Authority paid $10 million to the Boston Consulting Group to write a report that is not available to the public that paid for it. According to the article in the New York Daily News, the report was commissioned by someone at the Housing Authority who used to work for the Boston Consulting Group.
Now, readers of this blog may recall that the Boston Consulting Group was paid over $1 million in private funds to draft a short little paper recommending the privatization of a large number of public schools in Philadelphia. It was also hired (not sure the price tag) to draft the plan for the Transition Planning Commission that merges the schools of Memphis and Shelby County, moving a large number of children and $212 million into private hands.
Who are these guys? Who elected them to redraft the meaning of public education in urban America?
Their role in reshaping education is becoming more noticeable but I still have no idea where they are coming
Now, readers of this blog may recall that the Boston Consulting Group was paid over $1 million in private funds to draft a short little paper recommending the privatization of a large number of public schools in Philadelphia. It was also hired (not sure the price tag) to draft the plan for the Transition Planning Commission that merges the schools of Memphis and Shelby County, moving a large number of children and $212 million into private hands.
Who are these guys? Who elected them to redraft the meaning of public education in urban America?
Their role in reshaping education is becoming more noticeable but I still have no idea where they are coming
Tips for New Teachers
A reader responds with his ideas about how to succeed in the classroom:
| Tips for a new teacher:Above all else RESPECT your students, if you respect them for who they are they will respect you.1. Be knowledgeable about your subject matter. If you don’t know something a student asks say “I don’t know, let’s figure it out”. 2. Listen and learn from your students, they are your best teachers. 3. Expect the unexpected. 4. Go with the flow of the moment in the class. 5. Resist administrative mandates that you know |