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Teaching is sharing, not competing.In a seemingly unimportant story about a meeting between the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and the County School Board about compensation strategies the following screamed out at me:  ''Supervisors also asked the board to consider a merit-based compensation scale. '' Come again?  One would think that ...

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And you know they would! Merit pay, how realistic is it that our pay could actually be tied to test scores? Very realistic! What is merit pay?  Noun :extra pay awarded to an employee on the basis of merit (especially to school teachers) What “think tank” thought up this idea, maybe the same one that [...]

As I sink deeper into the morass of words that pretends to advance science in the name of economic security (which is like asking a flower to open in order to fulfill an order for FTD), I find comfort in reading  Walt Kelly's Pogo, a document at least as sophisticated as anything ''managed'' by Achieve, an organization of governors and business ...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. ''The Second Coming,'' ...

''The College Board was founded with a deep commitment to equity and must play a critical role in helping all students achieve high academic standards to thrive intellectually and to compete in a global economy.'' David Coleman, new CEO for the College Board We. Are. Screwed. I am resisting a very obvious, funny caption here-- David Coleman, ...

We have never worked harder and have never enjoyed work more, because, with rare exceptions, the work was significant, self-directed, constructive and therefore interesting. Helen and Scott Nearing  The Good LifeGrown by a student in B362.   Our children are not working for themselves. They are working for the global economy, for corporations, ...

The arts are an important part of a well-rounded education for all students. All of the arts – dance, music, theatre [sic], and the visual arts – are essential to preparing our nation’s young people for a global economy fueled by innovation and creativity and for a social discourse that demands communication in images and sound as well as in ...

  Suppose you had a child who had sustained a moderate head injury in a car accident, how would you assess her her first few months back? Her memory may be wobbly, she may be prone to bouts of inattention. You'd be kind, no? You'd work with her to help her get through her material. You might even whisper to her that there are bigger things in ...