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OC Register Is Hot for Teacher . . . Salaries - Page 1 - News - Orange County - OC Weekly

OC Register Is Hot for Teacher . . . Salaries - Page 1 - News - Orange County - OC Weekly

OC Register Is Hot for Teacher . . . Salaries

Local educators fume as the daily publishes its latest salary database

As the Weekly first reported on our Navel Gazing news blog in late October, an Orange County Register editorial project that relies on the names, campuses and salaries of all 72,000 public-school workers in the county for a database of about 37,000 of those employees is riling many instructors.

The article “Public School Paychecks Hit Six Figures for 3,300” by Fermin Leal and Scott Martindale, along with a database that includes the names, schools and salaries of each of those employees, was published Nov. 14 by the Register, which plans to use more

Stanton Peele: Sputnik and Charter Schools: Neither Has Moved American Education Off Center

Stanton Peele: Sputnik and Charter Schools: Neither Has Moved American Education Off Center
Stanton Peele

Stanton Peele

Posted: November 18, 2010 02:18 PM

American leaders have been concerned to improve education since the 1950s, when the Soviet launching of Sputnik in 1957 prompted endless soul-searching about deficiencies in American scientific education. It is now hard to recall the political and social turmoil Sputnik spawned. James Rutherford, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,compared two seismic events that focused Americans on the country's unpreparedness in an overseas enemy -- Pearl Harbor and Sputnik:

"The military and the politicians received the blame for Pearl Harbor, not educators; in the Sputnik instance, the finger of blame quickly and sternly pointed at the schools."

Among the educational concerns Rutherford identified in the aftermath of Sputnik were these: