The Carnival of Homeschooling is hosted this week by Mom is Teaching.
Archive for May, 2008
Anti-psychotic drugs are being prescribed to children — sometimes very young children — with attention deficit disorder, behavior disorders and autism. Nobody knows the long-term effects. From the St. Pete Times:
The ever-increasing number of kids who come through the doors of pediatrician Esther Gonzalez’s office lead chaotic lives. There’s more divorce and more drug use, […]
Taylor Mali, a high school teacher and slam poet, talks about what teachers make.
He’s also very funny on the “impotence of proofreading.”
In a new national survey, 57 percent backed reauthorizing No Child Left Behind as is or with minimal changes. The survey was done by Hoover Institution’s Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at Harvard. Support goes to 71 percent if respondents are asked about “federal legislation” that holds schools accountable […]
To prevent the “summer slide,” some schools with disadvantaged students are opening a month early to provide academics and outdoor activities low-income parents can’t afford. Scores rise sigificantly for students who complete the voluntary program.
Much of the achievement gap separating low-income and middle-class children is a summer gap: Middle-class kids learn a lot more […]
Mexico’s schools are controlled completely by the teachers’ union, reports The Economist. Elba Esther Gordilla, the union president known as la maestra, is one of the most powerful politicians in the country. She is a force for the status quo, writes The Economist.
Mexico spends a relatively large percentage of its GDP on education […]
BlogFestWest is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 18 starting at 6:30 pm at Fort Mason Center, room C370, in San Francisco. Eat, drink and be merry for $20 (for students and struggling writers) or $25 (for people with regular jobs). I’ll be there.
Cinnamon Stillwell, Ed Driscoll and Nina Yablok are the organizers. Contact them […]
In Riverview, Michigan an engineer father started out helping his sons with their math, then rewrote their textbook and finally wrote a series of math textbook that are being used by schools and parents. The Detroit News reports Nicholas Aggor’s books are catching on:
Riverview Community School District teachers liked the books so much they […]
Antoine, a B student at a mostly black, mostly poor high school, learned to refine his college admission essay at a summer program sponsored by College Summit. The New York Times story left me uneasy about Antoine’s future. The assumption seems to be that having a good poverty story to tell is the key to […]
Convicted of third-degree rape, a Tacoma middle-school principal remains on the payroll. Harold Wright Jr. was convicted earlier this month of helping a friend rape a 19-year-old woman. He refuses to resign, reports the Tacoma News-Tribune.
. . . Wright, 36, continues to collect his $8,245-a-month salary, something he’s been doing since February, when he […]
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