Dr. Diane Ravitch gives a stirring address to teachers and parents at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, September 24, 2010.
This is noteworthy: Congresswoman Chu’s alternative to the test/punish educational plan favored by the administration.
“Congresswoman Chu has developed an excellent framework for redefining the federal role in K-12 education. Her proposals recognize that the path to school improvement is through positive, not punitive, measures. She understands that teachers do [...]
Talk to You Later-Notes to My Son: Day 107 of School
This is an interesting article on the response in California to Obama’s Race to the Top. In it State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell states that though he favors the promise of reform,
I would never, ever support any evaluation of our educators based solely on the California Standards Testing and Reporting (STAR) [...]
“If you’re going to spend an extra dollar, personally, I would always rather spend it on the people that deliver the service,” Mr. Bloomberg said when asked about the report on Thursday, calling class size “an interesting number.”
“It’s the teacher looking a child in the eye, and teachers can look lots [...]
And now to add support to Arne Duncan’s Cash for Teacher Clunker plan new studies prove that size doesn’t matter:
Class-size reduction, which receives another large chunk of Title II funds, is popular with teachers and parents. But its extremely high cost raises questions about whether there are more cost-effective [...]
Teacher 1: He can’t sit.
Teacher 2: Ever?
T 1: All he does is flap his hands. If he can’t stop flapping his hands and distracting the other children…
T 2: How many students do you have?
T 1: 35. If he can’t stop flapping and distracting the other children, he’s out of [...]
This excellent AP piece by Libby Quaid about classroom overcrowding points out that though states are getting stimulus money for education it’s “not enough to cover state and local budget shortfalls.”
The stimulus boosted federal spending and helped restore cuts in state budgets, sources that together provide about 56 percent of school [...]
“You cannot ignore facts,” Obama said. “That is why any state that makes it unlawful to link student progress to teacher evaluations will have to change its ways.”
When I first saw the above photo composite, it sickened me. I had supported Obama because I thought he would bring positive change to [...]
I love Obama. LOVE him. Why? Look how he reacted at that news conference to the video of Neda Agha-Soltan’s death. You could see that viewing it tore him apart. The man clearly cares. That’s why it’s difficult to see him effing up. According to Harper’s Kevin Baker (quoted here via new deal [...]
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