‘I Was a Bad Teacher’: Five Months In a Corporate School Reform Nightmare
By Tim Walker “Run away! Really, run away now.” This is not the kind of encouragement anyone wants to hear right before a job interview. But this is exactly what was whispered to teacher candidate John Owens at the South Bronx high school where he was applying. Owens brushed off the warning from the veteran teacher and the negative comments about the school he read online. Owens, who was leaving a
Education Solutions from Abroad
Study after study in recent years suggests that American children fall well behind kids from Seoul to Helsinki, putting them at a great disadvantage in an increasingly knowledge-driven and global economy. The Christian Science Monitor looked at five lauded programs around the globe that hold lessons in areas in which the US struggles: educational equity, testing, vocational options, summer learnin
Attacks on School Lunch Program Got it Wrong
A widely disseminated AP article misleadingly implied that new healthier lunches were causing a mad rush by school districts to withdraw from the federally funded National School Lunch Program (NSLP). Nothing could be further from the truth, but apparently the ‘Kids hate healthy food’ story line is now the default for lazy media. Source: BeyondChron Related posts: Why Some Schools Are Saying ‘No T