The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a column on how a school can involve parents and motivate students last week. I didn’t realize it had run till I googled. It’s all part of my relentless book promotion campaign.
Archive for May, 2008
Suspension isn’t much of a punishment for students with a TV, cell phones, video games, a parent-free house and no homework, the Washington Post notes.
This was Kymber and Shawnte Andre-Sanders’s punishment early this month:
The Prince William County sisters spent the day in their pajamas, luxuriating in front of the television, contemplating 50 Cent’s song “Window […]
It took me 20 minutes to find Border’s Parenting/Education section, but I finally spotted my book on the shelves! Only two copies. Well, maybe there were lots and they were snapped up. Or the store didn’t order enough. I left one there and moved the other to the table of “new hard covers” by […]
“Character education” tends to mean vapid posters exhorting students to niceness, notes Betsy, who endorses a NRO column on teaching character through literature or even movies, such as the new adapation of Pride and Prejudice or Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
One of the most magical things about J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books […]
Today is publication day for Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea, and the School That Beat the Odds. It’s been five years since I decided to write a book about the creation of a charter school. I remember using Thanksgiving vacation to think about whether to leave the San Jose […]
High school jocks in Miami whose grades are too low for an athletic scholarship can boost their GPAs at a high school diploma mill, reports the New York Times.
By the end of his junior year at Miami Killian High School, Demetrice Morley flashed the speed, size and talent of a top college football prospect. […]
New Orleans is relying heavily on newly created charter schools to “lure displaced residents back to the city,” reports USA Today. Can charters meet the challenge?
“The schools in New Orleans prior to the storms were in such terrible shape academically, financially and physically, I don’t believe people would want to come back home and […]
The University of California doesn’t accept some coursework from Christian schools as meeting its academic requirements. Does UC discriminate against Christians? Students from Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murietta have filed suit. If UC’s ban is upheld, schools like Calvary Chapel will be pressured by parents to secularize their curriculum so graduates […]
Tomorrow is the publication date for my book, Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea, and the School That Beat the Odds, but Amazon already is shipping copies. And there’s a used copy for sale (”like new”) at a discount and four new copies, two for considerably more than Amazon’s […]
In my day, parents had to provide pencils, crayons, paper and blunt scissors. Now parents in Fullerton, California are being asked to buy a $1,500 laptop for each of their elementary and middle school children enrolled at four schools in the 20-school district. From the LA Times:
An evaluation by UC Irvine education professors lauded […]
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