Monday, September 20, 2010
Birds fly, fish swim, unions support tax hike
Birds fly, fish swim, unions support tax hike
Birds fly, fish swim, unions support tax hike
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On (about) this date in history Mexico won its independence from Spain, declaring, "today we are a free and sovereign basket case." As of last week Mexico is a colony controlled by bureaucrats and cartels.
On to the news.
• In Legislative District 26, in the great northwest, Sen. Al "Sand Barge" Melvin can't seem to muster the barnacles to meet his challenger, Cheryl Cage, in a debate. According to one observer, "Captain Popeye has mistaken Olive Oyl for Bluto and is completely out of spinach."
Melvin won't attend a debate unless his requirements are met: He wants the debate to include the district's five libertarians, four homeless Greens, three House of Representatives candidates, two turtledoves and a partridge in a pear tree. "I prefer to be lost in the crowd," he admitted.
Adm. Melvin is sailing out of an upcoming debate at Mountain View High School because "I'm allergic to public schools. Why can't we hold the debate at a GOP Unity Rally?"
The Educated Reporter: What’s Tony Danza’s value-added score?
The Educated Reporter: What’s Tony Danza’s value-added score?
What’s Tony Danza’s value-added score?
If you have ever wanted to hear an ’80s-era sitcom star utter the phrase “professional development workshops,” then A&E sure has a show for you. “Teach: Tony Danza” debuts October 1, with the first of seven one-hour episodes about the actor teaching—for real—tenth-grade English in a Philadelphia public school.
Naturally I am all in favor of bringing viewers/readers/listeners as deep into the classrom as possible, so they can better understand the challenges, successes and failures of American education. And as an avid gatherer of useless celebrity tidbits, I was happy to collect some about Danza: He is extremely bow-legged; he is obsessed with hand sanitizer; he sweats through his clothes a lot, which a student points out to him. But wow—I feel really bad for the 26 kids in Danza’s class.
Missing the POINT: Tomorrow's Big Merit Pay Study Will Tell Us… Nothing :: Frederick M. Hess
Missing the POINT: Tomorrow's Big Merit Pay Study Will Tell Us… Nothing :: Frederick M. Hess
Missing the POINT: Tomorrow's Big Merit Pay Study Will Tell Us… Nothing
Tomorrow, Vanderbilt University's National Center on Performance Incentives will publish the Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT) study, reporting the results of a major three-year teacher pay experiment in the metropolitan Nashville Public Schools....
Has special-ed inclusion backfired? — Joanne Jacobs
Has special-ed inclusion backfired? — Joanne Jacobs
Has special-ed inclusion backfired?
Has special-ed inclusion backfired? On Hechinger Ed, Sarah Butrymowicz questions whether students with special needs are best served by spending all or most of their day “with a teacher who likely knows little about how best to teach them.”
Federal mandates that students must be educated in “the least restrictive environment” possible.
Some classrooms are led by a general-education teacher helped out by a special-education teacher, in a team-teaching model. In other cases, however, students with special needs receive instruction from specialists only a few hours a day or week in pull-out sessions. That is, many special-education students spend the bulk of their days being taught primarily by general-education teachers.
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