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October 2011 - Posts
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The link below takes you to a recent NY Times article someone sent me that shows the ground level impact of NCLB. It comes from New Hampshire, a state not usually on the radar of education reform. Too bad above average schools like Oyster River are now Read More...
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The average person has one ovary and one ***! If you think that’s ridiculous, then you’ll understand the folly of using average class size data in educational decisions. Statements that are mathematically correct can still be blantantly wrong. Averages Read More...
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In reading a recent TU post one might presume that we support or encourage protests and similar anti-authoritarian behaviors. While free thinkers, the TU is rather conformist most of the time and color in between the lines more often than not, especially Read More...
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Friday night, riding home with two kids in the car looking back on a day well spent. I'm pretty sure it's not what Ice Cube had in mind when he rapped these lyrics in 1992, but today, "I got to say it was a good day." The best part about teaching doesn't Read More...
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Nearly six months ago I wrote a post titled “ The Education Market .” Since then, things have only gotten worse. The American public is divided on the Occupy Wall Street movement and it’s decentralized nature makes it difficult to figure out exactly what Read More...
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Sticking with the current events theme of some recent posts, there continues to be a great deal of conversation about the Occupy Wall Street movement. More of that in a second. The TU was at the annual "Making Connections" conference held by our division Read More...
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Yep, our schools are too big to fail. Or they should be. Heck...I can't figure it out. Funny thing to me is many argue(including the TU) that schools aren't all really failing. But Wall Street and other many parts of our financial sector did fail. Near Read More...
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Populations are made up of individuals. The wise teacher figures out quickly each class is full of individual kids. Likewise schools are composed of individual teachers. When you start treating individual teachers as unimportant, then ultimately schools Read More...
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On October 1, 2010 we set out to create a blog dedicated to raising awareness of the issues faced by teachers in the 21st century public school system. It all started with a reaction to the film "Waiting for Superman" and the immediate negative public Read More...
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