I received a lot of responses to the ?Pedagogy of Practice? post I wrote the other day. Many were positive.
An article in today's Akron Beacon Journal ?about school turnaround caught my eye.
Yet more proof that to some anti-reformers, adults inside the education system are more important than everyone else ? a guest blogger at Valerie Strauss's place says reformers lack empathy:
My name is Mike and I'm a Twitter-holic. It started innocently enough. My friends were doing it, so I decided to join them. I'd send a tweet here, a tweet there, maybe retweet something funny I read.
The New York Times reports on the creative and healthful lunches being cooked up at private schools in and near New York City.
?This current effort to portray teachers as fat cats, feeding at the public trough with no concern for their students, has got to stop. So, too, must the effort to spin research on the importance of quality teachers to suggest that quality teachers are the only thing that matters.'' *
