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I've made a lot of mistakes in my mind

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:26 AM by jtspencer
I'm listening to a soft, subdued version of "Chicago," but Sufjan Stevens. It's a life studio set taped on an indie station, KCRW, in Los Angeles. Somehow, with the lone guitar and trumpet, I can hear the words echoing the sentiments of this school year. Read More...
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sneaky parent

Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:19 AM by jtspencer
I read the following on ABC's website after seeing a short video clip on yahoo. Diana Mijares, a Houston mom, got suspicious when her normally mild-mannered 4-year-old, Megan, was suspended four times from preschool for bad behavior. So she did what any Read More...
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can I reach the iGeneration?

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:08 PM by jtspencer
In our English Language Development class (a thirty minute mandated period where I am supposed to offer scripted, factory-direct instruction) I posed the question, "Why don't kids read?" Students discussed the difficulty of reading text that has been Read More...
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should we be paid for performance?

Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 4:51 AM by jtspencer
In listening to the State of the Union, I noticed Bush touting the need for measurable results. He cited improved test scores as evidence that NCLB was working. It is always hard for me to listen to a guy ramble on about education when he makes up words Read More...
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gender-based education

Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:40 AM by jtspencer
Gender-based education, once relegated to parochial schools and stodgy prep academies, is now becoming a popular trend in education. Parents swear by the need to separate adolescents to help ease concentration. (Some would argue in favor of sending all Read More...
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don't tell me how to teach

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:28 AM by jtspencer
"Teachers are usually just lazy. They get tons of vacation and don't even have to put in a full work day," remarks my brother's friend. He's an arrogant fire-fighter; the type of lazy jock who never had to do work in school because he had a hell of an Read More...
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Are we dumbing down education?

Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 5:03 AM by jtspencer
"Kids these days just aren't being challenged enough," a veteran teacher laments to me. "It used to be that they had hard work. You could expect them to rise to high expectations. Now I have to water down everything." Are we really dumbing down our education? Read More...
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teachers and myspace

Posted Saturday, December 15, 2007 6:11 AM by jtspencer
Recently, a local news channel ran a "gotcha" segment about Phoenix teachers and their myspace pages, so I checked it out on Youtube. Combining scary-movie-music (some kind of a minor chord) and images of blurred out flesh, the newscasters announced that Read More...
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