On Education Weak, Tough Love praises corporate consultants who restructured business practices for St. Louis schools, saving $79 million and balancing the budget.
Last year, the St. Louis Public Schools were on the brink of bankruptcy, facing an astonishing $75 million year-end deficit and a near-term $99 million cash shortfall. The district was spending more than […]
Archive for May, 2008
A third grader in Espanola, New Mexico was arrested for disorderly conduct, handcuffed and sent to an adult jail. He’d raised his voice to a teacher after hitting a classmate with a basketball.
(The boy’s mother, Angelica) Esquibel, who works next door to the school, said she was called to the office, and that Jerry […]
Read this oped on Education’s future: the power of wonder by Peter W. Cookson Jr., dean of the graduate school of education at Lewis and Clark. Then explain what it means in 25 words or less. Do not win valuable prizes.
A military charter school aimed at urban black students is starting its first year, reports the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Founder My Lai Tenner , formerly an administrator at suburban schools, advertised on a hip-hop radio station, and “quickly filled the 250 open slots for grades 5 through 8.” Hundreds more students, […]
The Onion addresses the effect of sunlight on student activism: College Student Does Nothing for Tibet Over Summer.”
“Someone should tell Becca that the needs of the disadvantaged do not take a scuba holiday off the coast of Curacao,” Coe said, referring to a one-week vacation Davis took with her family in June. “Activism takes time, […]
The Happy Carpenter is unhappy, because he has to spend five hours and 50 minutes online to pass a course for his Florida general contractor’s license. Answering the questions is the easy part. The trick is to do it slowly.
1.) You must spend at least 5 hours and 50 minutes of actual time […]
The New York Times’ vendetta against charter schools continues with this misleading story, writes the relentless Eduwonk. In short, the Times thinks the data sampling techniques used by the feds to survey public and private schools are sinister when applied to the growing number of charter schools. And the Times repeatedly implies that No […]
I’ve got an oped on politics and education policy in today’s San Jose Mercury News Perspective section.
Number 2 Pencil is crowing about this story on the perfection of the number 2 pencil, which has “the perfect amount of reflective quality.” It’s Kimberly’s new tag line.
Opinions on vouchers vary widely depending on how the question is phrased.
According to the annual survey conducted by Gallup for Phi Delta Kappa, an educators’ group, 54 percent of the public oppose school vouchers; 42 percent favors “allowing students and parents to choose a private school to attend at public expense.” Yet […]
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