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President Barack Obama speaks about affordable college education during a town hall meeting at Binghamton University, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, in Vestal, N.Y. Obama is on a the second day of his two-day bus tour in upstate New York and Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Get Schooled: Was there any silver lining to segregated schools?
Media Matters takes pundit Pat Buchanan to task for finding a "silver lining" in segregation. With the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington next week, here is what Buchanan wrote this week in his syndicated column: If we go back to the end of World War II, ...
Get Schooled: US Ed Secretary to DeKalb Schools: Nation is in awe of what you did.
U.S. Education Arne Duncan beamed into the DeKalb Board of Education today via teleconference this morning to discuss the drama at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy where an armed intruder threatening to kill police gained entry and forced the school into lockdown mode. Heavily armed, 20-year-old Michael Brandon Hill ...
Get Schooled: Do we need more guns in schools: Retired principal says no.
I am running a pro/con package today on guns related to the McNair shooting incident this week. I will be posting an opposing viewpoint shortly. First, here is Ellen Minette of Peacthree City, a retired school principal, on how our legislators have failed us on sensible gun policy.
AUG 22
Get Schooled: President Obama thanks McNair bookkeeper for courage, calm
The AP reports that President Barack Obama phoned the steely bookkeeper at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in DeKalb County to congraulate her for talking down a troubled young man who entered the school Tuesday with an AK-47 saying he wanted to kill police. The president thanked Antoinette Tuff ...
Get Schooled: Georgia Tech wunderkind learns that Internet fame is followed by Internet excoriation. Now accused of plagiarism.
Internet fame can be instant and awesome, but so can Internet retribution. That is what Georgia Tech sophomore Nick Selby is probably learning today. Selby is the talented Georgia Tech orator from Arizona whose fiery convocation speech to the newly admitted freshmen class went viral this week. I posted ...
AUG 21
Get Schooled: Math professor: Common Core “will set our children back one to two years.” Governor in retreat.
Those thundering footsteps of late are the governor and Legislature beating a hasty retreat from Common Core State Standards, which have come under fire from both the left and the right. Gov. Nathan Deal had been in full support of Common Core, but that seems to have changed. It is ...
Get Schooled: If you want to build the Iron Man suit, you're at Georgia Tech. You can do that. Helluva of a welcome
Wow. As one person wrote after seeing this convocation speech at Georgia Tech this week, "I am 30 yrs old, I already went to college. I am married, I have a kid, and a full time job in New York...and after watching that, I just applied to Georgia Tech..." Note ...
Get Schooled: New ACT scores: Georgia students lag in math, science
The DOE released ACT scores today. In a nutshell, Georgia scores on the college admissions test did not change and still trail the national average. The state's weakest performance was in math and science. The national average is slipping so the gap between Georgia and the rest of the country ...
Get Schooled: McNair bookkeeper: The right person to deal with a crazed gunman
This was one calm lady in a potentially deadly situation that would have reduced most of us to quaking, quivering blobs. Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy bookkeeper Antoinette Tuff said she understood that the 800-plus students in the school and the staff "were dependent upon me to keep their ...
AUG 20
Get Schooled: Any immediate lessons from DeKalb school horror? Beyond relief, what else is there?
I am not sure what immediate lessons can be learned from this afternoon's horror at a DeKalb County elementary school. Except perhaps to look behind you when entering a school so an armed intruder doesn’t slip in with you. The deep dive by the media into what happened at Ronald ...
Get Schooled: Three deaths and three devastated school communities
Reading a daily newspaper can be a sobering experience. I am sure many of you are sharing my sadness over three deaths reported this week in the AJC that have plunged three schools into grief. First, there was the shocking death of talented Creekside High School football player De'Antre ...
Get Schooled: State announces first Innovation in Teaching winners. From Fannin, Camden and Henry counties.
From the governor's office this morning: Gov. Nathan Deal today announced three winners in round one of the Innovation in Teaching Competition, a recognition and reward opportunity for teachers who demonstrate innovative teaching strategies in English Language Arts and Mathematics. “The round one winners are among the most creative ...
AUG 19
Get Schooled: Do schools stigmatize boys as problems because of how they play?
Over the years, I have written a lot about whether modern school cultures are inhospitable to boys and their more rambunctious forms of play. Christina Hoff Sommers writes about the topic this week in Time. Author of “The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young ...
Get Schooled: Math teacher: Inherent flaws in how Georgia and Common Core teach math
Georgia math teacher Trevor Thomas writes about the controversial integrated math curriculum that has been a subject of frequent Get Schooled blogs over the last five years. (If you search on "math," you will find many pros and cons on the program introduced by former school chief Kathy Cox.) Thomas ...
AUG 18
Get Schooled: Ashton Kutcher: Sexiest thing in entire world is being smart
Thought this was worth sharing. Wise message from actor Ashton Kutcher to share with middle school students and older, including, "Build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunities." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XqW7BJMDq8