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I posted the following on a message board. What do you think? I don’t understand why people think WA schools are failing. ACT and SAT scores are up (and above the national average) even with ever more students tested each year. We still have kids entering Read More...
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I’m in the middle of teaching John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath today, and I presented the students with the following question: If the economic system used in our society guarantees winners and losers, does this mean society has an obligation to take Read More...
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Texas prepared to change the history textbooks to create a more right leaning slant , and Texas voted for a new curriculum that “amends or waters down the teaching of the civil rights movement, religious freedoms, America’s relationship with the U.N. Read More...
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We finished The Grapes of Wrath and are starting A Gathering of Old Men , but I was gone for a few days. Now, I had intended to do this earlier, but I had time today and we had “music day.” We listened to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” and look Read More...
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My school’s Diversity Club sponsired a Day of Silence for “all people whose voice is lost because of” discrimination, bullying, and bias. This was on Friday. On Monday, we had what is titled as a Day of Truth, which is a response to a Day of Silence. Read More...
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I waited a couple days before commenting on my January 6 post, “Serious or Satire?” , but now I feel I should provide my opinion. I think Foley must be seriously recommending the elimination of novels using negative terms about African-Americans. If his Read More...
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Through I Thought A Think I read an excellent editorial explaining how Governor Gregoire’s slashes to levy equalization will harm poorer and potentially more diverse districts much more than wealthier districts. In fact, Neal Kirby, the editorial’s author, Read More...
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Since the 1970s some aspects of students and their lives are relatively unchanged according to a study by the Foundation for Child Development.
Reading abilities, graduation rates, and suicide rates have basically remained the same for teenagers since Read More...
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One aspect of teaching, which can be quite difficult, is how to make what we teach relevant to students today. Kids seem to think they cannot possibly connect the writings of yesteryear with the hectic, technological, global lives led today; however, Read More...
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Two novels I taught this year were To Kill A Mockingbird and A Gathering of Old Men. Prior to and during reading these novels, I had the kids look at some songs, poems, and historical context. Here are a few of my favorite things concerning the race relations Read More...
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Thousands of high schools around the country participate in the Day of Silence each year, which includes my own high school. However, in my state the bulk of the media’s attention centered on Mt. Si High School because Rev. Ken Hutcherson, pastor of Antioch Read More...
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My high school is losing an awesome math teacher (I’ll call her Math Genius), and she’ll officially announce her move on Monday. Math Genius is leaving the high school mainly for the unfortunately all-too-often-cited reason of lack of administrative support. Read More...
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I read this article about a teenager killed basically for being gay, and I continue to be amazed at the lack of support within schools for gay, ***, transgender, and bisexual students.
My school recently started a group to support all students of diversity, Read More...
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When I was a kid I remember being told that one day, far, far in the future everyone will be tan skinned, a dark shade of tan. Because of the races mixing and having children, soon everyone will be a blend of everyone else. I'm not sure if this will happen, Read More...
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