GPS Reader Viewpoint – Mike Weston…
Hillsborough County, FL (Tampa) is home to the 8th largest district in the country with 15,000 teachers and a $3 billion budget. The Gates funded teacher evaluation system is an emotional nightmare for teachers… Here is Florida BAT Admin. Mike Weston with some note on what is coming soon to your district… If Excessive testing is worthwhile, it must be worth doing to excess! How the nation’s eighth
Big $ – Who exactly is buying our public schools…
Jessie Ramey at Yinzercation… “The way some of them throw around the green stuff, you’d think corporate-style education reformers were made of money. Oh wait. Some of them are. As Big Money plays a bigger and bigger role in shaping public education, it can be hard to keep all the players straight – from wealthy individuals, to foundations, superPACs, astroturf groups and corporations. Here’s a han
Are our high schools are a disaster?
Laurence Steinberg at Slate… “Every once in a while, education policy squeezes its way onto President Obama’s public agenda, as it did in during last month’s State of the Union address. Lately, two issues have grabbed his (and just about everyone else’s) attention: early-childhood education and access to college. But while these scholastic bookends are important, there is an awful lot of room for
S.F. seen as model in bilingual education…
Jill Tucker in The San Francisco Chronicle… “In the 15 years since voters essentially banned bilingual education in state schools, teaching English learners to read, write and do arithmetic first in their native language has nearly disappeared from California classrooms. Since Proposition 227 overwhelmingly passed in June 1998, it’s been all about learning English, first and foremost – but not in
The school that Is changing American education…
Rana Foroohar at Time.com… “Two years ago, I visited a school in Brooklyn called P-TECH, the Pathways in Technology early college high school, which seemed very much like the future of education to me. It knitted together educators and job creators, and gave kids not only a high school degree, but a two-year associates degree and a job guarantee at one of the country’s top blue chip firms, IBM. In
Common Core – Asphyxiating education…
Robert Koehler at The Huffington Post… “Things are getting worse in the American classroom, not better. The experts and the special interests purporting to fix the educational system are continuing, instead, to asphyxiate it… Read it. What do you think? Read and share comments here… The post Common Core – Asphyxiating education… appeared first on GoPublicSchool.com.
Snow Day? That’s Great. Now Log in. Get to Class.
Al Baker in The New York Times… “As classrooms become more electronically connected, public schools around the country are exploring whether they can use virtual learning as a practical solution to unpredictable weather, effectively transforming the traditional snow day into a day of instruction…” Read it. What do you think? Read and share comments here… The post Snow Day? That’s Great. Now Log in
