The nation’s first boarding school, Dummer Academy, is changing its name to something less susceptible to bad jokes. The school was founded by an early Massachusetts governor, William Dummer.
Via Katie of Constrained Vision, a proud graduate of Carnage Middle School.
I’ve always wondered at the judgment of the East Side Union High School District […]
Archive for May, 2008
New York students can pass the Math A Regents exam by answering 31 percent of questions; 40 percent earns an “honors” pass.
The exam, the simpler of two math tests and a requirement for graduation, is comprised of 30 multiple-choice questions worth 2 points each and nine computation questions worth up to 4 points.
Answering […]
People with high self-esteem feel good about themselves, but don’t necessarily do any better than everyone else, writes psychologist Roy Baumeister in the LA Times.
High self- esteem in schoolchildren does not produce better grades. (Actually, kids with high self-esteem do have slightly better grades in most studies, but that’s because getting good grades leads […]
When Jenny D. teaches would-be teachers, she tries to make her teaching decisions explicit and clear. Showmanship doesn’t necessarily lead to learning, she writes.
Here she gives examples of clarity in teaching prospective teachers about Brown vs. Board of Education.
“In order to prepare for this, I thought about the timeline myself. I […]
A night janitor at Stanford learns English from a student. Samuel Freedman writes in the New York Times:
Learning even the rudiments of English can save a janitor from being fired for not responding to a request he does not understand. With some fluency, a janitor can get off the night shift and onto days. A […]
A Rhode Island school district has canceled the elementary school spelling bee because it produces a winner.
Assistant Superintendent of Schools Linda Newman said the decision to scuttle the event was reached shortly after the January 2004 bee in a unanimous decision by herself and the district’s elementary school principals.
The administrators decided to eliminate the spelling […]
Michele of Small Victory writes about sexual exploitation of girls by the media — and by boys — and and says it’s not the fault of “society” if your kid has no self-respect, morals or judgment.
Well, damn. I missed Katie Couric’s special on blowjobs last night. I really meant to watch it, because I so […]
In the Teacher Quality Bulletin, Kate Walsh looks at how to do merit pay.
. . . while student achievement gains should be
the most important indicator of a teacher deserving of higher pay,
standardized tests scores paint too narrow of a picture to be a sole
indicator of a teacher’s worth. Putting merit pay decisions in the […]
What defines a “dangerous school?” A new Reason Foundation study finds that schools have unreasonable and erratic definitions of “dangerous,” underreport school crime and don’t provide parents with accurate information about school crime.
Most school violence is concentrated in a few schools. According to the National Center for Education Statistics during the 1999-2000 school year 2 […]
Children of the Code has new interviews with reading researchers Keith Stanovich and Keith Rayner, and Robert Sweet. co-founder of the National Right To Read Foundation.
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