A kindergarten teacher may be fired for a Facebook comment that she was “teaching in the most ghetto school in Charlotte.”
Charlotte Superintendent Peter Gorman recommended she be fired.
The teacher’s attorney, John Gresham, said his client didn’t intend to offend her students and was telling the truth about the resegregated school, where only 3 percent of [...]
Archive for January, 2009
At Newcomers High, a New York City school for recently arrived immigrants, students understand Thanksgiving, writes Melanie Kirkpatrick in the Wall Street Journal.
History teacher Tim Becker includes a unit on the holiday even though Thanksgiving isn’t part of the state-mandated curriculum for his 11th-grade class. It “reminds my students that they are not the first [...]
Eduwonk links to Education Trust slides of seventh-grade writing assignments at two California middle schools. One asks students to analyze Anne Frank’s character; the other asks students to write about “my best friend” or “a chore I hate.” The expectations gap is huge, he writes.
Raising expectations doesn’t work unless other things happen too, writes commenter [...]
Julie Amero, accused of letting students see pornographic pictures on a classroom computer, has plead guilty to a misdemeanor and surrendered her teaching credential; she’ll also pay a $100 fine. In exchange, felony charges will not be refiled. But a soon-to-be-released report suggests she’s innocent, reports Wired.
Amero, a substitute teacher in Norwich, Connecticut, was arrested [...]
Lori Drew, whose MySpace hoax lead to the suicide of a 13-year-old girl, was convicted of three misdemeanors for unauthorized computer access. The federal jury deadlocked on the main charge, conspiracy, and rejected felony charges.
Prosecutors said Drew and two others created a fictitious 16-year-old boy on MySpace and sent flirtatious messages from him to teenage [...]
Teenagers are into volunteering.
American teenagers today are 100 percent more likely to volunteer than teenagers in the last few decades, federal research shows. A record 68 percent of K-12 schools offer or recognize service opportunities for students, according to a study by the Corporation for National and Community Service, a government agency, which also reports [...]
Students reject help for ‘white, male’ disease
Published by November 28th, 2008 in Culture. 6 CommentsIn the mistaken belief that cystic fibrosis is a disease of white males, the student council at Carleton University in Canada voted not to support an annual fundraiser.
No doubt the council will come out against raising funds to fight breast cancer as well.
Little kids dressed up as Indians and Pilgrims drew protesters and police in Claremont, California, reports the Los Angeles Times.
For four decades, children at Condit and Mountain View elementary schools have taken annual turns dressing up and visiting each other to share a Thanksgiving feast. Controversy erupted after district officials last week decided to eliminate [...]
The Carnival of Homeschooling is up at The Common Room.
Very troubled children are being given very powerful antipsychotic rugs, often prescribed “off label,” with no evidence of effectiveness, writes Judith Warner in her New York Times blog.
. . . the “atypical” antipsychotic Risperdal, a tranquilizing whopper of a drug with serious, sometimes deadly side effects, is now being widely prescribed to children with attention [...]
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