Kate Riley’s 10-year-old son received a letter of congratulations signed by Washington’s governor and state superintendent.
“Congratulations!” it started. “… We are very proud of you, and you should be very proud of yourself.”
Apparently, my son “achieved the state reading, writing and mathematics learning standards.”
But her autistic son, who spends most of his time in […]
Archive for May, 2008
What It’s Like on the Inside is hosting this week’s Haunted Schoolhouse Carnival of Education.
The neighborhood D.C. school had weak test scores and an inaccessible principal, writes David Nicholson in I Just Couldn’t Sacrifice My Son.
The thing is, with a second-grader who has already read the first two Harry Potter books, I can’t wait the four or five years it will take to begin to undo decades of neglect […]
In one-on-one sessions with an RA and mandatory dorm meetings, University of Delaware students are questioned about their social, sexual and racial identities and told to conform to a “university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism,” complains the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
The […]
Twelve percent of high schools are “dropout factories” where “no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year,” reports a Johns Hopkins study commissioned for Associated Press.
“If you’re born in a neighborhood or town where the only high school is one where graduation is not […]
Sprittibee is hosting this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling.
In Manchester, Connecticut, a school board member wants to grade parents on ensuring their children do homework, get to class on time, eat a good breakfast and are dressed appropriately for the weather. Parents also would lose points if they don’t attend twice-yearly parent-teacher conferences.
The superintendent and the PTA hate the idea, saying it will […]
On issues of free speech, homosexuality and abortion, teachers are more conservative than other college-educated Americans, concludes an Education Next article by Robert O. Slater, professor of education at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. Teachers seem liberal only if they’re compared to less-educated Americans.
Seventy-five percent of K-12 teachers are women. The average teacher is […]
The elementary school Halloween parade has been disarmed. At a New Jersey elementary school, nobody’s scary any more.
One young boy dressed as a cowboy was without a gun in his holster, and a pirate wearing an eye patch had no sword in his scabbard.
. . . The parade included a devil […]
Students who use Wikipedia to do homework can skip the laborious fact-finding process and go right to synthesizing ideas, writes Seth Godin.
Selecting the facts is an important part of the process. Finding them shouldn’t be.
That’s a false dichotomy, responds Stuart Buck.
. . . it’s impossible to “synthesize ideas” until you’ve looked up […]
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