When Desmond Shannon was a student at the Gesu School in North Philadelphia, he thought students at that private Catholic elementary school had more homework than their teachers.
Thanks to a new, local program that trains young college graduates to teach at inner-city Catholic schools, Shannon, 22, now knows better.
"I see the other side," said Shannon, who teaches
Recently I had the great pleasure of hearing Dr. Stephen Krashen speak right here in lil’ ol’ Petaluma. I have read Dr. Krashen’s work since the early 1980′s, when I was an English major at San Francisco State University, then again as a teaching credential candidate at Sonoma State University, and again when I studied for my CLAD credential, and always as a teacher who values free-choice reading for students. What an honor to sit
(with gratitude to and reverence for the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Nine years ago, President George W. Bush, in whose symbolic shadow our children now shiver, signed the No Child Left Behind legislation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of children who had been seared in the flames of educational injustice. It promised a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their inferior education.
But nine years later, many children have indeed been left behind. Nine years later, many children’s minds are still sadly crippled by the manacles of under-funded schools and the chains of standardized tests. Nine years
A More “Equal” Inequality: The falling tide.
By KOBI ABAYOMI
Kobi Abayomi is an Asst. Professor in ISYE-Statistics at Georgia Tech
To see more graphs depicting the race to the bottom go to:http://www.businessinsider.com/15-charts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america-2010-4#the-gap-between-the-top-1-and-everyone-else-hasnt-been-this-bad-since-the-roaring-twenties-1
There has been more than just a bit of attention to the gross increase ineconomic inequality in the United States over the past forty some years.
Notwithstanding a debate about the causes — from an increasingly regressive tax policy, the dimunition of American educational quality at even the best institutions, to the post-industrial financialization of the economy — or the effects — recalcitrant, persistent malaise, a surprising maladjustment of local and national budgets, or, as Nicholas Kristof puts
Steven Newton traces the development of creationism, from the time of the Scopes trial, to "scientific creationism," and the attempts to use science to support a literal reading of Genesis, to the rise of "intelligent design" creationism. Where: Contra Costa County Freethinkers & Atheists Meeting. When: February 06, 2011
A Vanderbilt University statewide poll shows 65 percent of Tennesseans do not
At today's School Reform Commission meeting SRC chair Robert Archie announced that Commissioner David Girard-diCarlo has tendered his resignation.
Archie said, "He is a colleague and I think I speak for my fellow commissioners when I say that he will be missed. He has served this commission with fidelity and has helped this commission make extremely difficult decisions regarding the future of the school district and the students attending our schools."
Archie said that Girard-diCarlo and his wife will be spending a great amount of time outside of Pennsylvania and that he is stepping down. Governor Corbett will select
On our first full day in Finland, we visited the Ministry of Education and Culture-- responsible for developing education, science, cultural, sport and youth policies, and fostering international cooperation in these important fields. Within the Ministry, the Child Welfare division oversees early childhood development programs. These are the programs Finnish children attend, prior to
As reported by the DREAMActivist blog this morning, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is looking to take another whack at the DREAM Act.
Hutchison voted against the DREAM Act — which would have given some undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children or young teens a path to citizenship through college study or military service — in the lame duck session. At the time, however, she indicated that she might be able to support it if it was limited to “the intended group of children who grew up in the U.S. and attended primary and secondary schools here.”
That was then. Now she’s taking a different approach.
It is, Hutchison says, “a clear-cut issue that we should not deport young people who have been educated in our
Do I really need to go into why there is a problem with Illinois public employee pensions again?
Is it something the employees did? Is the average teacher pension of roughly $40,000 a year too greedy? Do teachers also get to draw on their social security and their pension like those in the private sector? Did we fail to meet our payment obligations as TRS members?
No, no, no and no.
Did the state’s leaders fail to meet their obligations over the past decades ending up with
