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An unquestioning board of ed
9.2.10 - Sandra Stotsky - One basic principle of self-government is still alive at local school committee meetings. Committee members, parents, and others argue in public about whatever the superintendent is proposing on matters of curriculum, learning, and teaching.
America's best teacher and the L.A. Times
9.1.10 - Jay Mathews - Once the Los Angeles Times announced it was going to release its analysis of how much value each one of 6,000 L.A. elementary school teachers had added to their classes, based on test scores, I knew I had a good test of the validity of their project. ...
Eternal Principle
8.30.10 - Nancy Salvato - Marcus Tullius Cicero, who was born in 105 B.C. and was beheaded by Antony's soldiers in 43 B.C, writes in On the Laws , “Law was neither a thing to be contrived by the genius of man, nor established by any decree of the people, but a certain eternal principle, which governs the entire universe, wisely commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.”...
HARVARD ED SCHOOL
8.30.10 - Will Fitzhugh - When my father graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1927, I am pretty sure it was not called “The Harvard Graduate School of Medical Education.” People I know who got their degrees from Harvard Law School tell me that it was never, to their knowledge, called the “Harvard Graduate School of Legal Education.” ...
Time to Quell Excessive Power of Credit Bureaus
8.24.10 - Peter Stern - During the past several decades in the U.S. , three credit bureaus have become so powerful that they can make or break American lives. ...
The American Dilemma
8.22.10 - Peter Stern - The U.S. economy is riddled with wounds and blisters. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have plummeted in the market and it shows that housing still is in a world of hurt. It is difficult to comprehend why Obama and Congress permit the ongoing unemployment travesty, except it is clear that it is a maneuvering for the next several elections. ...
Will We Have the Best Courses Online in Five Years?
Within 10 years, half of all high school courses will be taken online, say Clay Christensen and Michael Horn. Bill Gates has now trumped that prediction with an even stronger one: within five years the best higher education will be available on the internet. ...
A Private View of the Test of Education
8.13.10 - Ron Isaac - The large bold font of the headline of what may have been an advertorial passing as a news story in the “Religious Schools Section” of at least one prominent community newspaper in Queens not long ago caught my attention and wouldn’t let go. Can you read it and break free of its implications?...Misinformed Views of Americans and Mid-Eastern People by Americans and Mid-Eastern People
8.12.10 - Peter Stern - Our perceptions are controlled and clouded by various obstructionist media and other. I truly believe that we Americans and Mid-Eastern citizens have more in common than we have differences. As humans, we have the same basic needs and desires....
Dunkin’ Dialogue
8.10.10 - Ron Isaac - At a “town hall” meeting perched on the airwaves of Sirius XM Radio earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of Education Duncan acknowledged the “need to do a much better job of listening to and empowering teachers.”...
Negative Externality
8.9.10 - Ron Isaac - Marc Kagan was not recently confirmed as the newest Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; that was his sister Elena. Siblings may differ dramatically in many ways, especially over matters of intellectual passion, but in this case, judging from brother Marc's bold and unapologetic assertion of the union spirit ( he is a UFT member and active high school teacher), the guardianship of our nation's Constitution is in good hands, provided Elene and he are cut from the same cloth....
Should I Be Able to Beat My Students With an Enormous Wooden Paddle?
8.7.10 - Matthew Amaral - I just read an article “To Paddle or Not to Paddle Students” on CNN. This is crazy, and yes, this article was just written today, in the year 2010. Over 200,000 kids were BEAT last year in the United States of America because they misbehaved in school. And get this: Over 40,000 of them had disabilities. ...
Grigori Rasputin Bailout
8.6.10 - Neal McCluskey - Sending billions of federal taxpayer dollars to teachers and other public school employees is the bailout that just won’t die. It’s been sliced, shot up in a firefight between Democrats, and even had a battle with food stamps, but it just can’t be killed! ...
The Ascent of America’s Choice and the Continuing Descent of America’s High Schools
8.5.10 - Sandra Stotsky - With an additional $30,000,000 to come to Marc Tucker’s NCEE from the USED’s “competition” for assessment consortia grants, his hare-brained scheme for enticing high school sophomores or juniors deemed “college-ready” by the results of the Cambridge University-adapted...
The Job of School Improvement Isn’t Over
8.4.10 - The last week or so has shown a mix of good and bad news for Michigan’s public schools. On the bright side, this week’s release of Michigan’s EducationYES! school report cards showed important gains for a number of Michigan schools. For example, the number of schools making Adequate Yearly Progress rose from 80 percent in 2007-08 to 86 percent in 2009-10. ...An Interview with J.B. Schramm: College Summit
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As a retired school superintendent, I applaud your remarks. What I do in retirement in Connecticut is to help citizens establish local audit committees ...
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I think many people know all of this, they might not be able to articulate it in the same way. Thanks for posting this ...
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Peter Stern
a former director of information services, university professor and public school administrator, is a disabled Vietnam veteran who lives in Driftwood., TX.
a former director of information services, university professor and public school administrator, is a disabled Vietnam veteran who lives in Driftwood., TX.
