Comments on: Too good to last http://joannejacobs.com/2008/03/05/too-good-to-last/ Free-linking and thinking on education by Joanne Jacobs Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:18:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog at The Core Knowledge Blog http://joannejacobs.com/2008/03/05/too-good-to-last/#comment-72132 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog at The Core Knowledge Blog Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:15:27 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/03/05/too-good-to-last/#comment-72132 [...] eduwonk, Joanne Jacobs,  Ken DeRosa, Dean Millot, eduflack and a host of others.  It’s an important story, but if [...] [...] eduwonk, Joanne Jacobs,  Ken DeRosa, Dean Millot, eduflack and a host of others.  It’s an important story, but if [...]

]]> By: Elizabeth http://joannejacobs.com/2008/03/05/too-good-to-last/#comment-71796 Elizabeth Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:36:36 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/03/05/too-good-to-last/#comment-71796 IGs make recommendations only. If proper procurement/evaluation regs were followed, which are really tricky and require a lot of "CYA", this probably would not have been a problem. It's up to the discernment of the program heads to determine the validity of the IG's findings and recommendations. IGs make recommendations only. If proper procurement/evaluation regs were followed, which are really tricky and require a lot of “CYA”, this probably would not have been a problem. It’s up to the discernment of the program heads to determine the validity of the IG’s findings and recommendations.

]]> By: anon http://joannejacobs.com/2008/03/05/too-good-to-last/#comment-71770 anon Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:52:55 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/03/05/too-good-to-last/#comment-71770 I am sorry for sounding like a broken record in my posts, but why is anyone surprised by this report? This is your government and this is the way it works, er, doesn't work. Government supports universities that have education schools with our tax dollars. Education schools actively work to undermine anything related to reading that does not adhere to the whole language mantra (or to any other nonsensical approach to teaching reading, see "learning styles"). Sandra Stotsky has correctly identified ed schools as the "shame of the nation." Teacher education schools (and government schools) have failed. Those of us who can get our kids out of these schools. Those of us who are interested in improving the reading skills of children get out of education schools if we can and take our talents for teaching the science of reading to teachers elsewhere. I am sorry for sounding like a broken record in my posts, but why is anyone surprised by this report? This is your government and this is the way it works, er, doesn’t work. Government supports universities that have education schools with our tax dollars. Education schools actively work to undermine anything related to reading that does not adhere to the whole language mantra (or to any other nonsensical approach to teaching reading, see “learning styles”). Sandra Stotsky has correctly identified ed schools as the “shame of the nation.”

Teacher education schools (and government schools) have failed. Those of us who can get our kids out of these schools. Those of us who are interested in improving the reading skills of children get out of education schools if we can and take our talents for teaching the science of reading to teachers elsewhere.

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