Education news nuggets
It's time to hand over the big tools to the little hands (even if they don't write in cursive anymore).
It's time to hand over the big tools to the little hands (even if they don't write in cursive anymore).
?What has increasingly been the case is so many people get pink slips, no one knows who or how many will get laid off. ?Its usefulness to teachers has diminished.'' *
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This post was a part of our April Fool's Day edition of The Gladfly! Please don't think we're serious about this. An open letter to Gladfly readers from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute:
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James Surowiecki made the case last month in the New Yorker that the president's plan to spend money on research and development, infrastructure, and education in these glass-half-empty economic times makes sense.
To drink or to study? That is the question. Here's another one: Did you know that some grass cutters and stock clerks earn more than veteran teachers?
?So what this means is, is that our workforce is going to be more diverse; it is going to be, to a large percentage, Latino. And if our young people are not getting the kind of education they need, we won't succeed as a nation.'' *
Several years ago, then superintendent Roy Romer mandated that elementary teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District use Open Court?a proven literacy program that he believed would help drive reading achievement in the district.
Teachers rallied at the State Capitol in Albany last night, in a last-ditch effort to get the legislature and governor to restore funds to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's?deficit slashing budget proposal. It doesn't seem to have worked.?
If you believe the two sides currently duking it out over collective bargaining in Wisconsin, Ohio, and other states, contracts with teacher unions are either the only thing saving American education from utter ruin or they're the greatest impediment to reforming the system.
How does your local school spend its money? If your district received funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Arne Duncan knows:
Michelle Rhee, in Indianapolis this week, spoke with reporters from that city's paper, the Star, and answered questions about her education-related positions and philosophy.
?Unions should have every right to continue representing their members, speaking up for teachers as they negotiate salaries, professional development and benefits.'' * -Michelle Rhee, CEO and Founder of StudentsFirst
It was standing room only yet again at Monday night's meeting of the board of education, of which I am a member, in our 2000-student upstate New York school district; nearly 200 people were jammed into the high school cafeteria when I arrived.? This was not good.
As I was writing up the account of my recent board meeting, I had to keep pinching myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming. ?And just at that moment, it seemed, there came a flurry of emails from a listserve I am a member of --?
Sometimes the right thing doesn't look great politically.
One of the reasons Candidate Obama was so appealing was his call for participants in our democracy to "disagree without being disagreeable." Though he hasn't always lived up to that standard, it's a worthy ob