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Blog Posts of the Day This Week

Blog Post of the Day



Our NPE Blogs of the Day feature what we think are interesting and important blog posts centered on issues of public education. The views expressed by the bloggers are, of course, entirely their own. To submit links and tips for inclusion, please send an email to npeblog@outlook.com.

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THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS Dad Gone Wild Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it

 Dad Gone Wild – Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it.


THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS 
Dad Gone Wild 
Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it




THE NEW ABNORMAL HAS IT’S PLUSSES
by TC Weber / 18h
“The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows” ― Stephen King Clipping the leash to the dog, I check that I have the necessary plastic bag in my pocket. Once verified, I call out to my 10-year old son, “You about ready?” “We going now?”, he responds from the living room, “Coming.” It’s 7:45 and in a normal year, we’d be rushing to get him and his sister
A RACE TO NOWHERE, WITH NO GUARANTEED WINNERS
by TC Weber / 2d
“the city’s ills were supposed to disappear.” ― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain Back when I wore a younger man’s clothes, I drank the elixir of the protestant work ethic by the case. I was sold on the idea that I was on a mythical race to somewhere, I didn’t know where it was or even have a clear vision of how I’d recognize it if I got there, I only knew that if I worked hard and studied my craft to
WHO DO WE WANT THEM TO BE WHEN THEY GROW UP?
by TC Weber / 4d
“The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue” ― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes I’m going to let you in on a little secret this morning. For some, it’ll be deeply disturbing. Others will nod and say, “About time you catch up to reality.” Regardless, here it is, the chasm between what happens in the statehouse and what happens in the
A CORE PROBLEM
31by TC Weber / 7d
“Our values are the same. We disagree on policy, but we don’t disagree on humanity , we don’t disagree about love and compassion. I think that’s true for all of us — it’s just that we get lost in our fear of what’s different.” Michelle Obama speaking on her friendship with George Bush It’s 9 AM on Friday morning, the second day of TCAP testing for MNPS students, and my fifth grader and sixth-grad
A QUESTION ON NUANCE
by TC Weber / 11d
“A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.” ― Thomas Edison “When are you getting your vaccination shot?” My wife asked early last week. “I don’t know. Sometime soon.” “Why haven’t you already gotten it? What are you waiting for?”, she testily responded. “I don’t know.

Dad Gone Wild – Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it.

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TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT THIS WEEK

 TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT

TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT THIS WEEK



Rhetoric vs. Reality: Bill Lee School Funding Edition
49by Andy Spears / 1d
As the Tennessee General Assembly passed Gov. Bill Lee’s budget today which included maintaining the woefully inadequate status quo for school funding, the Tennessee Education Association (TEA) offered the following statement expressing their disappointment: “The budget passed by the General Assembly is disappointing when we have a historic opportunity to get Tennessee out of the bottom five in e
League of Women Voters Calls for Action on School Funding
31by Andy Spears / 2d
In an action alert email, the League of Women Voters encouraged members and supporters to push Gov. Bill Lee and the General Assembly to make significant new investments in public education. Here’s the text of that email: Tennessee continues to neglect its public schools. The state consistently ranks as one of the bottom five for public school funding. During the current legislative session, nume
Paid For By . . .
37by Andy Spears / 3d
At the end of this nice, happy story welcoming a new reporter to the education beat at WPLN, there’s a very interesting sentence: Nashville Public Radio thanks the Thorne Family Charitable Fund, the Scarlett Foundation, the HCA Healthcare Foundation, the Joe C. Davis Foundation and the Andrew Allen Foundation for their generous support of our education beat. It’s great that the education beat has
Mattresses Full of Cash
by Andy Spears / 14d
On the heels of the Department of Revenue’s announcement today that the state has once again exceeded monthly revenue projections, the Tennessee Education Association (TEA) released a statement accusing Gov. Bill Lee of stuffing mattresses full of cash rather than spending money on K-12

TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT

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