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…have it all figured out. On their March 15 cover, over a blackboard with the repeating phrase “We must fire bad teachers.”, we’re promised “The Key to Saving American Education,” courtesy of Evan Thomas and Pat Wingert. An accompanying story, ” Schoolyard Brawl: A leading reformer and a union head square off over teacher tenure” gives an [...] The Thursday New York Times has a series of letters reacting to this earlier piece: One Classroom, From Sea to Shining Sea by Susan Jacoby (NYT, 3/18/10). Jacoby had argued for full-bore nationalization of education: Our lack of a national curriculum, national teacher training standards and federal financial support to attract smart young people to the teaching [...] It’s hard to believe that consolidation is working as intended. Be sure to read Paul Stearns’ piece — Consolidation penalties are a shameful response — in the BDN. In another context, some truths: I wish I could say I found it surprising, but it seem to me to be of a piece with too many other brutalities [...] The figures seem to vary a bit, with a late Wednesday afternoon Associated Press article saying 6 plans passed (thus 12 defeated) and a TV report (WLBZ) saying that the DOE says 7 passed. In any case, reorganization did not have a great day yesterday, and we’re a long way from the promised 80 districts. (See [...] Health news you can use. Push-back against the anti-vaccine crowd: Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade (NYT, 1/13) “But I wouldn’t go into a bookstore and sign books. It can get nasty. There are parents who really believe that vaccines hurt their children, and to them, I’m incredibly evil. They hate me.” Dr. Offit, a pediatrician, [...] Yesterday’s post pointed toward a complete change in how Maine goes about testing. Around the same time as we came upon that news, we also came upon an exceedingly useful bit of advice that we’d like to share:
(via Criggo) Back now to our regularly-scheduled post! One question that comes to mind when we ponder [...] |
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