Michael Lopez and Kimberly Swygert graciously agreed to guest-blog for me for the next three weeks while I’m busy with my wedding, which is today, the receptions (Bay Area and Chicago) and the honeymoon. I may pop in to do some blogging from time to time, or I may decide to go cold turkey and […]
Archive for May, 2008
At Mountain Sky Junior High in Phoenix, Principal Linda Marlar plans to teach teachers the difference between “dawg” and “dawging,” so they know what current slang is “aiight.” The Arizona Republic reports that Marlar is “hip to the lingo of today’s young teenagers.”
Marlar talks with teachers often about issues involving slang and what’s acceptable and […]
Conservative guru Charles Murray blasted No Child Left Behind in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal.
NCLB takes a giant step toward nationalizing elementary and secondary education, a disaster for federalism. It pushes classrooms toward relentless drilling, not something that inspires able people to become teachers or makes children eager to learn. It holds good students hostage to […]
Schools are trying to ban candy. Writing on Slate, economist Tim Harford doubts schools can stop children from snacking.
My school used to offer two varieties of food. There was cafeteria food, which was inedible, and there were chocolate bars from the snack shop. For two years, I had four chocolate bars for lunch every day.
These […]
Dayton, Ohio is starting a video game high to motivate underachievers. Scott Elliott writes:
Capitalizing on youthful passion for video games, school leaders hope to keep more kids in school by offering the chance to conceive, design, build — and sell — their own video game.
. . . The Dayton Technology Design High School will enroll […]
The new National Survey of Salaries and Wages in Public Schools (2005-06) is out. This result is surprising:
Among superintendents, females out-earn males by more than $9,000, a margin of about 8 percent. District leaders from black and Hispanic racial and ethnic backgrounds earn average salaries between 21 percent and 25 percent higher than their […]
Text Savvy hosts this week’s Carnival of Education, which takes the visitor to HUNblog’s Carnival of Student Blogs. Also check out the Museum of Online Museums.
Schoolhouse Rock is the theme of this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling over at Lilting House.
Submit entries to the Carnival of Education by 11 tonight, Eastern time.
Check out the Carnival of Children’s Literature too.
Get on the Bus blogger Scott Elliott’s review of my book, Our School, is now in the ink-on-paper Dayton Daily News. The book is an ‘informative and inspiring read,’ writes Scott, who is an informative and inspiring human being.
In an LA Times op-ed, California education secretary Richard Riordan defends the graduation exam, which requires, at most, 10th grade English and eighth grade math skills.
Some will say the exam unfairly affects low-income students and English-language learners, and thus should be lifted. To that, I rebut: If low-income students and English-language learners are disproportionately […]
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