Tuesday, May 4, 2010

The Educated Reporter: Congratulations Kalamazoo.

The Educated Reporter: Congratulations Kalamazoo.


Congratulations Kalamazoo.

I really like student-made videos, especially the whole Shorewood/Shorecrest lip sync smackdown out of Seattle back in December. Those videos were awesome, but neither of them made a gal get kinda teary-eyed the wayKalamazoo Central’s entry into the high school Race to the Top contest did. The school won a commencement


What about other unions?

In all the coverage about teacher quality and tenure, and lengthy due process for teachers who read porn in the classroom while they are not assaulting or underserving children, I never read anything about how teachers’ union protections compare to those in other unions (especially in the public sector). Are there lessons to be learned from other unions? Reforms that have or have not made a difference?