Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
A recent survey conducted by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling concluded that Americans don't know how to handle their money. In fact, they aren’t really handling it at all. Here are the depressing stats:
• A third of Americans have no personal nonretirement savings
• A quarter have saved nothing for retirement
• One in ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Back in early May I touched on a story of a Washington state teacher who refused to administer the WASL test (Washington's state test for NCLB). Carl Chew, a teacher at Nathan Eckstein Middle School, was suspended for his refusal.
About a week later Doug Ward, a teacher at Cullowhee Valley ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Perhaps you remember the town of Port St. Lucie. Recently a teacher was fired for “missing too much work”. However, as we have written about several times on this blog (article 1, article 2, article 3, article 4) she may have actually have been fired for what I guess you ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Last week we talked about a partnership with your child's teacher. If there is going to be a true partnership it means both parties have certain responsibilities.
Teachers have the responsibility of educating students in the core curriculum designed by your school district. Ask at your local school and they should ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Here I am browsing my Digg for interesting things to comment on when I come across this Rick Garlikov, whom it seems is a philosopher with some ideas on education.
Personally I think the Socratic Method is an underused method of teaching. For those who are confused the Socratic Method is ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Lately, the state of South Carolina is getting a ton of media attention for school related news. Earlier this month, an SC middle school made headlines after eight students were suspended for having sex on a school field trip. This week, South Carolina is also making the RSS news rounds ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
The results are in and Grace Moon from Canyon Middle School in Castro Valley, California has won the Doodle 4 Google competition. Her doodle is titled "Up in the Clouds" and expresses a world in the sky.
Grace says this new world depicted in her doodle is clean and fresh, and ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Yesterday I wrote about attracting the best and the brightest teachers. There are two basic things that need to change if we are going to attract the best and the brightest teachers. (This is not to say that some of the teachers now aren't the best and the brightest.) The ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Sen. Edward Kennedy has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Hopefully, he will fight it and beat it. Yesterday, Secretary of Eduation Margaret Spellings issued a statement on the situation:
"My friend Senator Ted Kennedy is a lionhearted champion for our nation’s schoolchildren. His decades of public service have inspired generations ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Good Wednesday. A school in Santa Fe Texas had to confiscate all student cell phones after nudes images of two female students were being passed around, from cell to cell. Almost like the adult version of broken telephone. Here's what occurred; two girls, in 7th 8th grade, snapped up nude ...
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