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Archive for May, 2008
Everybody wants to be on TV, including a 10th grade bully at an Ohio high school who got a friend to videotape him beating up another kid — in class. The teacher was distracted by other students and didn’t notice what was going on till the victim had been punched at least 10 times in […]
A bit of American heritage — those little milk cartons kids get in school — is being abandoned and EdWonk is happy.
This spooky story at Daryl Cobranchi’s site is also a math joke.
Amy Stuart Wells, an education professor at Teachers College of Columbia, trashes charter schools in the Washington Post, arguing that the free market has nothing to offer schools.
Carrying out market-based school reform on the cheap requires people with the experience to educate children, the business acumen to run an autonomous institution, the political […]
Two high schools in Brooklyn:
A teacher, trying to stop a fight, is pushed into an elevator shaft with the struggling student; fortunately, the drop is only six feet.
Diane Ravitch tours a Catholic girls’ school where teachers will work for less because the students are eager to learn.
Although many come from stable families, […]
Teachers at some Texas schools may be cheating to boost their students’ scores. From the Chicago Sun-Times:
An analysis uncovered strong evidence of organized, educator-led cheating on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills at schools in Houston and Dallas, along with suspicious scores in hundreds of other schools, the Dallas Morning News reported.
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Philadelphia’s experiment with privately managed schools is leading to improvement, says this CNN story.
Two academic years after Pennsylvania took over the failing Philadelphia school system and made the controversial move to contract out management of about one-sixth of its schools, test scores are up and class sizes are down. The district plans to expand private-sector […]
USA Today’s year-end education round-up quotes blogger Alex Russo:
“After much saber-rattling, very few districts and absolutely no states ended up seceding [from NCLB],” says Alexander Russo, who runs the Web log thisweekineducation.com. “There’s too much money involved, too many questions that would flow to states that pulled out and, in the end, too many easier […]
Secularism, as exemplified by a zealous de-Christing of Christmas, is bad political strategy for liberals, writes Mark Steyn.
In Plano, Texas, in the heart of God-fearin’ Bush country, parents were instructed not to bring red and green plates and napkins for the school’s ”winter” parties, as red and green are colors with strong Christmas connotations and […]
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