Thursday, August 30, 2012

School Tech Connect: Our New National Religion

School Tech Connect: Our New National Religion:


Our New National Religion

This fantasy is now accepted as fact:
Numerous studies over the past two decades conclude that student performance in school is tied more closely to teacher effectiveness than to any other factor. Good teachers produce good students, regardless of class size or length of school day or socio-economic background of the child. Moreover, students who must endure ineffective teachers may never catch up academically.
Then when you call them on it, they burble and framble back to a slightly more realistic position about teacher "effectiveness" being the most important in-school factor, whic


Anarchy in Louisville

Hi. Just thought I'd drop in here.

Look what's happening down in Louisville.  It's all so democratic--- it's as if it were happening in a foreign country!

How can this possibly be bad for public policy, to have people running for school board and being elected by voters based on the strength of their arguments? We need this in Chicago. Residents, running for the Board, within specific residential districts.

Rahm Emanuel thinks you're too dumb to handle this, Chicago.