Okay, just trying to figure out why the LA Times needs to bash public schools. Here’s what Muckety comes up with (click on the boxes):
Helen, wife of Sam Zell, LA Times owner, is what we call a Chicago venture philanthropist. According to Mike Klonsky:
This collection of [...]
I got into an exchange in the edublogosphere about tenure, whether it was a basic right, as one commentator claimed it wasn’t, or a way of keeping minority workers down (last hired, first fired) as another commentator claimed it was. All I can say is that I have tenure for the time being and hope [...]
…I love the title of that book. It’s an examination of the moral pressures brought to bear on schoolteachers, like yours truly:
Kind of like Monkey in the Middle. Not that I’m paranoid or anything (I am) but the following explanation of moral and other restrictions placed upon teachers helps me [...]
Talk to You Later: Notes to My Son, May 15, 2009,
“Walkout!”
In this episode I discuss the walkout that never happened.
I ran into this at the end of Hate Teachers Week, a letter in response to a post about Green Dot, The Charter Corporation That Took Over the World. (Maybe aforementioned could help me with D, my least cooperative student, who refuses to do any work… Oh, my bad. I forgot: most charters would [...]
Discussing the LA Times most recent foray into teacher bashing (it’s looking and sounding like the LA Daily News more and more ever day), my mother in-law stated the obvious, a habit I wish she’d get over. “I’ll tell you why people get upset with teachers. It’s because they get tenure [...]
According to Margret A. Winzer’s fascinating book The History of Special Education, school districts, at the beginning of the 20th century,
under pressure to manage if not to educate increasing numbers of unruly, disabled, low-functioning, and immigrant children, could no longer ignore the needs of these pupils and were [...]
Talk to You Later: Notes to My Son, March 27, 2009,
Throwing Homework in the Trash
Having first heard of the CMA (California Modified Assessment) test last year, I got a real taste for it today at a meeting for resource specialist teachers. Basically, it’s a test for kids with disabilities to be given in lieu of the CAT6/CST, those nightmare tests I’ve been torturing kids with for years. (Try giving [...]
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