KIPP Teaching: "Sprinting a Marathon for Two Years"
At some KIPP schools teachers ride the buses so that children come to school ready to learn and go home ready for homework. What can be effect on children who have to remain silent from when the leave home until the time they return?From a former KIPP teacher: It was ultimately unsustainable. It felt like sprinting a marathon for two years. Probably worked somewhere between 80 and 100 hour
Responding to "Why Poor Students Struggle"
My response to this at the NYTimes:James Horn Cambridge, MA Pending ApprovalI think you might trust many of the souls to come along when you put some weight on their end of the economic tug of war that most poor college students are losing. The Ivy League's Raymond and Caitlin will always be who they are, as tangible examples of a the clueless classist and racist system we have created. You might
YESTERDAY
Will Humans Allow Capitalism to Destroy Life on Earth?
Today 400,000 say No in NYC. What do you say?
The Plan Is Working: Real Teachers Quit
with links to research study, from MSU website:Contrary to popular opinion, unruly students are not driving out teachers in droves from America’s urban school districts. Instead, teachers are quitting due to frustration with standardized testing, declining pay and benefits and lack of voice in what they teach. . . .
9-21-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Paying Off Time on the Lazy River with Lives on the Corporate TreadmillThe New York Times has a piece today about the latest in the recreational arms race at the second and third tier colleges that are educating the next generation of America's corporate drones. It's called the Lazy River, which allows students to totally relax between fraternity/sorority parties and football week