In reading the California Teachers Association magazine, teacher Darren Miller learned that teacher-bloggers’ free-speech rights may be limited by rules barring “immoral or unprofessional conduct.” Or not. The courts haven’t ruled.
Are there reasonable limitations, in addition to the obvious Privacy Act issues, on what teachers can post on their personal blogs when done outside […]
Archive for May, 2008
Low-income English Learners in Denver learn much faster if they attend low-poverty schools instead of high-poverty schools, according to a study of elementary reading and writing by the Piton Foundation and the University of Colorado. Why? The Rocky Mountain News offers one explanation:
A key difference between the schools is that students in poorer schools typically […]
Parents pay a premium to live in a “nice” neighborhood, assuming the public schools will be good. But hundreds of California schools in middle-class and affluent neighborhoods are Not As Good As You Think, concludes a new book by the Pacific Research Institute.
In nearly 300 schools with few low-income students, a majority of students in […]
Hero teachers won’t improve inner-city schools, writes Alex Tabarrok on Marginal Revolution. There aren’t enough of them.
What we need to save inner-city schools, and poor schools everywhere, is a method that works when the teachers aren’t heroes. Even better if the method works when teachers are ordinary people, poorly paid and ill-motivated - […]
A “Scohol’ Zone” warning in Seminole County, Florida will be repainted today after a motorist reported the misspelling.
To qualify for citizenship, immigrants will have to answer civics and history questions drawn from a new list of 100.
Just as with the current test, applicants will have to correctly answer six of 10 questions asked orally and pass the English proficiency portion of the exam.
About 42 civics questions were dropped or revised to […]
At Education in Texas, Mike is asking for help in figuring out if a child who’s struggling to learn could be suffering from lead poisoning. He’s googled for the symptoms but wonders if anyone has first-hand experience.
A pet rabbit named Sugar Bunny was stolen from a Spokane preschool last week. Animal rights fliers protesting the Ringling Brothers circus were left in the empty cage.
“Somebody stoled him,” 5-year-old Zion told The Spokesman-Review, which gave only the first names of him and other children in a report on the heist. “I’m sad.”
Lori Peters, […]
Is Oakland, California, a troubled school district trying to reform, a National Model or Temporary Opportunity? A Center for Education Reform study by writer Joe Williams questions whether Oakland’s progress will continue. Oakland is the most improved large district in the state, but still scores well below the state average.
“Without question, the Oakland school […]
In the photo, taken 50 years ago, a white girl screams hatred at a nicely dressed black girl, who’s trying to get through an angry crowd to integrated Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas. Vanity Fair tells the story of Elizabeth Ecksford, the most emotionally fragile of the Little Rock Nine, and her belated reconciliation […]
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