Quotable & notable
??if there is a ?national standard,' what prevents the same people who are using the present ?standardized tests' from continuing to demonize teachers???* ?Joel Shatzky, Former English Professor at SUNY-Cortland
??if there is a ?national standard,' what prevents the same people who are using the present ?standardized tests' from continuing to demonize teachers???* ?Joel Shatzky, Former English Professor at SUNY-Cortland
This new policy brief lists fifteen concrete ways that states can ?stretch the school dollar? in these difficult financial times. Written by Marguerite Roza, senior data and economics advisor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Michael J.
?It is fundamentally wrong to divide students up according to their racial group and teach them separately.'' ?Tom Hone, Arizona superintendent of public instruction
Ben Yagoda is an author and professor and on to something when he identifies a new-ish sort of bad writing, which he calls ?clunk.? One reads about pupils who blithely insert into school assignments text-message phrases such as LOL and various emoticons?e.g., . And perhaps this does frequently happen?
Rarely do I agree with the New York Times editorial page; today I mostly do. The Times editorialists are ?horrified?