School people are a bit too jumpy these days.
CLOVIS, N.M. - A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.
Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped […]
Archive for May, 2008
Democrats believe “We are smart, you are dumb,” writes David Gelernter in the LA Times. For example:
Vouchers let you decide where to spend tax money to educate your children. You give the voucher to any public or private school; it’s your call. But Democrats worry that (among other things) too many parents will spend […]
I had lunch yesterday in Chicago with Alex Russo of This Week In Education and Michael Lach of Teach and Learn. Go check out their sites. Go on.
Tomorrow, it’s on to New York, where I’m meeting with some non-cyber friends and with my publisher to talk about promoting my charter school book. How lavish […]
James Lileks keeps it real with “hooker-in-training dolls” and pimp dog toys.”
When should a child be removed from an alcoholic, addicted or mentally unstable parent? The Seattle Post-Intelligencer follows two Child Protective Services workers in a depressing but illuminating story.
Cynthia Martin, who handles chronic cases, as opposed to (Mary) Marrs’ emergency calls, was preparing to visit Heather, a 33-year-old alcoholic who’d stumbled onto her son’s […]
California has learned how not to fix failing schools, write Bill Evers and Lance Izumi in the San Jose Mercury News.
From 1999 until 2003, California sent contractors into the classroom to observe, find out what was being done improperly and then guide each school in creating a tailored improvement plan. Rescue plans based on classroom […]
On Gadfly, Rick Hess analyzes the lessons to be learned from school reform in San Diego. The superintendent’s seven-year effort proved disappointing.
In Tom Wolfe’s I am Charlotte Simmons, it’s orgy time all the time on college campuses.
“Sex! Sex! It was in the air along with the nitrogen and the oxygen! The whole campus was humid with it! tumid with it! lubricated with it! Tingling with it! in a state of around-the-clock arousal with it!”
Not so […]
Girls learn about medicine; boys learn about sexism at UC-San Francisco Medical Center’s “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” today, sponsored by the Center for Gender Equity. Or inequity, as the case may be. The SF Chronicle’s Matier and Ross write:
For example, the 9- and 10-year-old daughters are being invited to […]
Liberals shouldn’t pretend they dislike federal intervention just because they oppose No Child Left Behind, writes Matthew Yglesias.
When you hear Kansas is taking evolution out of the curriculum, you don’t approve. You don’t say, “well, we can teach evolution in Maryland and let them teach whatever they want in Kansas.” Nor do you think it’s […]
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