Downeast Schoolhouse » weasel talk http://downeastschoolhouse.com Maine education news, link-dense, exclamation-point rich! Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:00:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Wages of Appeasement? http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2009/04/the-wages-of-appeasement/ http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2009/04/the-wages-of-appeasement/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:12:12 +0000 admin http://downeastschoolhouse.com/?p=1834 On education policy, appeasement is about as ineffective as it is in foreign affairs. Many proponents of school choice, especially Democrats, have tried to appease teachers unions by limiting their support to charter schools while opposing private school vouchers. They hope that by sacrificing vouchers, the unions will spare charter schools from political destruction. –  The [...]]]> http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2009/04/the-wages-of-appeasement/feed/ 0 The Merit Wars http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2009/03/the-merit-wars/ http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2009/03/the-merit-wars/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:00:32 +0000 admin http://downeastschoolhouse.com/?p=1672 In his latest Report Card post, Matthew Stone points out that the party lines on merit pay, at least within the State of Maine. have shifted;  no longer is it righties for, lefties against.  Now that Obama has proposed merit pay, Dems and some of their allies are more favorably inclined.  Stone sees little opposition [...]]]> http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2009/03/the-merit-wars/feed/ 0 A Tale of Two Headlines http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2009/02/a-tale-of-two-headlines/ http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2009/02/a-tale-of-two-headlines/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:00:11 +0000 admin http://downeastschoolhouse.com/?p=1449 Two stories, actually the same story presented in two different ways, caught our eye last Friday.  We saw the BDN story (”Study gives Maine an F for evaluating teachers“) over our first cup of coffee.

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Although a national group has given Maine a failing grade in the way it retains good teachers and removes the [...]]]> http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2009/02/a-tale-of-two-headlines/feed/ 0