Arne "Jellyby" Duncan?
That's the charge from George Will, who picks up on Joshua Dunn's recent Flypaper post to give the Secretary of Education a hard time for crusading for "civil rights"
That's the charge from George Will, who picks up on Joshua Dunn's recent Flypaper post to give the Secretary of Education a hard time for crusading for "civil rights"
The Wall Street Journal penned a convoluted editorial this morning on national standards.
Important and worrisome Ed Week article on Secretary Duncan's speech to the Council of the Great City Schools. Urban superintendents want even more flexibility on turnaround rules. That's bad news. Rather than closures and new starts, here's more reason to believe we're going to see more of the meek and ultimately unsuccessful interventions of the past.
The section on teachers in Louisiana's RTT application is considerably weaker than I expected. This should bring us pause since LA is not only a finalist but also, in the conventional wisdom, among the??front-runners.
Kentucky may have the most maddeningly indecipherable teacher section of any state RTT application. It certainly has as weak a section as any of the finalists. After reading it three times, I still can't figure out how teachers will be evaluated--and that's supposed to be the core of the entire section.
A new documentary film focuses on New York City's infamous "rubber rooms" and finds teachers sleeping, doodling and (in at least one case) forming a musical duo. The eight rubber rooms are places where banned teachers await their disciplinary fate -- with full pay. According to an article in the New York Post:
"Bottled water we stopped doing, stopped buying textbooks. But, we did very carefully not lay off anybody." ??? Tom Budde, superintendent, Central Union High School District in southern California