“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. - Wait, What?:
by jonpelto
Listen to this audio clip from Storycorps.
It is one minute and 35 seconds, but it says more than most people say in years, decades or even in a lifetime.
If it doesn’t give you goosebumps, if it doesn’t make you believe we can and must do more to take back our nation and our world from the forces that seek to tear us down and belittle our spirit, then you aren’t listening very well.
Here is a video of a portion of that
by jonpelto
Tomorrow night, January 22, 2013, the Bridgeport Board of Education will hold a special meeting. The agenda has two items; (1) Superintendent mid-year evaluation and (2) Contract extension discussion. The Board will probably attempt to go into executive session on both matters.
The contract extension item was on the agenda for the last board of education meeting, but Vallas – for the second time in a row – stormed out of a board of education meeting. This time he took the entire senior staff with him, leaving the board with no executive staff to answer vital questions about other items on the agenda.
If a superintendent of schools in any other Connecticut town acted in such an unprofessional way they’d be reprimanded or put on leave. Furthermore, senior staff, all of
by jonpelto
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
The debate in America today is not between those who want to keep our education system as it is and those who want to change it.
The “education reformers” are fond of saying that those of us who oppose their initiatives are for the status quo. They are wrong and their rhetoric is insulting, small-minded and stupid.
The debate is about what type of public education we should have.
While improving the system of public education in the United States is the critical building block to the economic prosperity of our nation and its citizens, providing every child with a quality education is far more important than that – for it is the key to whether we, as a
