Uppity.... With Malice Toward None Ed Notes Online
I was talking to some supposedly liberal teachers not long ago and was surprised at their animosity to Obama.
Margaret Spellings takes her glasses off.
Spellings says she's not sure why so many people hate NCLB. All it
requires, she says, is that schools get their students "to grade level"
by 2014. That, she says, is a "modest" request. And really, how can
anyone argue against that?
It's A Nation At Risk... AFT Blog
I don’t usually plug Cato but the debate between Rothstein and the others over there is one of the more useful exchanges that I’ve seen in a while.
Kierra, Conyers and Shrek Joanne Jacobs
When
eighth graders asked Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers if she
regretted interrupting the council president and calling him “Shrek,”
she responded with a petulant, “That depends.”
Zombie Prom School Of Blog
My
usual Friday Night Syndrome is being too exhausted after a week of
teaching to move very far from the couch. Tonight, however, I am
finishing up my job as prom coordinator. A job I will NEVER DO AGAIN.
Overkill Teaching In The 408
A gaggle of girls in my various classes have decided the whole tío-sobrina shouldn’t die, and we’ve pretty much abandoned using each other’s names at this point.
No Bike For You
Matt Yglesias
It seems that students at Bridgewater-Raritan High School high
school in Jersey raised $2,000 to pay for a new bike rack at their
school. But the school said no!
Unpopular opinion
Fair Game correspondent Matt Pack offers an unpopular opinion on home-schooling.
Science Journal Wall Street Journal
Studies
of schoolchildren who read in varying alphabets and characters suggest
that those who are dyslexic in one language, say Chinese or English,
may not be in another, such as Italian.