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World Trade Center and Pentagon Terrorist Attacks, 2009 Update
Last year we were winning 7-0; now it’s 8-0. I show no mercy - none - to the folks in education who say that NCLB, various teaching/administrative/reform initiatives, etc. inspire “terror” in children or that their practitioners are...
The Useless Education Media, Chapter #42,783: EdWeek Edition
The education media is, as a whole, ineffective at educating the public. [Yes, there's a little bit of irony there.] Sometimes ed writers don’t know enough about a subject or practice to write a complete story. Sometimes they turn to tabloid-st...
Public Education Discussion on RFC Radio, Wednesday, June 17, 10pm EST
There will be an hour of talk radio dedicated to discussing the general state of public education in the US airing tonight, Wednesday, June 17th, at 10pm EST on RFCradio on Dr. Melissa Clouthier’s “The Right Doctor” show. The Right ...
NEA’s Teacher Thank You Card
I rarely speak or write of the NEA in a way that would warm the cockles of that organization’s heart. Their lobbying efforts don’t warrant it. Individual teachers, however, shouldn’t be punished for their union’s misgivings. T...
Scoundrel Al Sharpton, the Bad Penny Happily Spent By EduWeenies
Yes, yes - ‘education is the civil rights issue of our time.’ If the 40,000 variations on that theme didn’t sink in during the 2008 campaign season, I get 140-character reminders often enough via Twitter. And when was the last time ...
Explaining the “Pain Fetish” to Mr. Rotherham
Dan Willingham has written a must-read piece about third-rate huckster Alfie Kohn. But we’ll get to that later. The gall, the gall! says Andy Rotherham. In “Breaking News: Psychologist Dan Willingham has a pain fetish,” Rotherham wr...
Wishing the Forum for Education and Democracy’s “Will We Really?” Campaign a Short Life
A teaser: “If I thought for a second that this Forum was an objective, non-partisan opportunity to discuss problems in public education instead of an ideological pow-wow, I would likely participate. Again, thanks for the heads up - and I look f...
Good News in Columbus, Ohio - KnowledgeWorks Raises Graduation Rates
From the Columbus Dispatch, we’ve got some good news about success with the Ohio High School Transformation Initiative - thanks to the KnowledgeWorks Foundation. Graduation rates improved from 62% to 82% and the graduation gap has narrowed. Per...
Storming the CASTLE in the War on Christmas
‘Tis the season, folks. For family, friends and joy, some say. Others seize the opportunity to hoist the banner of the Establishment Clause to persecute those who dare to recognize any bit of Christmas in public schools. Over at Dangerously Irr...
BREAKING VIDEO: Progressive Educators, Conservatives Fight Over Arne Duncan’s Secretary of Education Appointment
It’s official - Chicago’s Arne Duncan will be the new Secretary of Education. The Twittersphere is abuzz as are the blogs. There’s no shortage of Duncan-related link dumps. You can get started on your own personal Duncan Familiarity...
Hillsborough County Public Schools and the Blogging Problem
“We must have hit a nerve,” sayeth one of those Tampa-area bloggers. I believe that blogger is right. I also believe that it won’t be long before Ms. Faliero et al. try to silence Tampa education bloggers officially, or at least try...
EdTechTalk Conversations: Digital Footprints, Personal Responsibility - and MKT
I was pleased to join hosts Lisa Parisi and Maria Knee on Episode 19 of EdTechTalk Conversations this Sunday. We spent an hour discussing digital footprints/online image of teachers - and whether they have a special responsibility to tailor that imag...
crowdSPRING: How the Internet Can Ruin the World While Smiling Sweetly
Steve Dembo at teach42 posted about crowdSPRING, a site on which creative projects [logo, website design, etc.] are posted for all to see. Then designers, hobbyists and, as Dembo points out, students can respond to the ad with a design that may be ch...
Inspiring Invention Contest by Discovery Education, Sony Creative Software and the Ad Council
Here’s a neat contest for K-12 students - Inspiring Invention. Students can create a motivational/inspiring public service announcement to get others to invent: “Enter to win the Inspiring Invention Contest. Create a public service announ...
An Online Degree Site That’s Easier to Navigate
If you subscribe to any education-related newsletters - or about a billion like I do - your screen drips with ads for online degrees and distance learning opportunities. … and sites that offer, facilitate and aggregate online degrees and distan...
No Child Left Behind Debate at NewTalk.org - Should We Scrap NCLB?
The education debate continues over at NewTalk.org. The topic at hand - the final in a month-long series on education - is whether we should scrap No Child Left Behind. Jay P. Greene is moderating this debate. He says on his own blog, “Let the...
UPDATE: Analyzing Cumberland Superintendent William Harrison’s Response on Partisan Teacher and Bully
In case you were wondering, “Ed.D.” also stands for “Educrat Dolt.” Apparently Ms. Harris teaches in Fayetteville, not Asheville, in the Cumberland County system. Not that it matters to me - I don’t care which city or st...
Politics in the Classroom: How Not to Do It, Courtesy of Diantha Harris of Asheville, North Carolina
For an update from Cumberland County Schools Superintendent William Harrison - and for analysis of his statement - check out the new post. Discussing politics in the classroom is a delicate thing. It’s a bit like open heart surgery; if you kno...
Politics: An ACTA Must-Read and a Boston University Don’t-Bother-Reading
From the American Council of Trustees and Alumni: “An article from today’s New York Times considers the debate over the extent to which professorial politics influences students. While nearly everyone agrees that faculties on the whole te...
Farewell, New York State Education Commissioner Richard Mills
Richard P. Mills has served as New York State’s Education Commissioner for 13+ years. Today he notified the Board of Regents that he’s stepping down in June, 2009: “Mills continued, “There is no better time for a transfer of l...
Why Hillsborough County Schools Need Stephen Gorham - and Must Dump Carol Kurdell
Elections are rarely inflection points - especially as they relate to education - but the Tampa, FL area has one tomorrow. Hillsborough County Schools have endured a hell of a bumpy ride - and it’s not over. More than a year ago I detailed the ...
Education Reporting, Proposition 8 and Bay Area News Group’s Erotic Family Values
For those of you who don’t live in California or have been under a rock for the last 6 months, Proposition 8 is a proposal to amend the California Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage and recognize only marriages between one man and one w...
Grading the Candidates on Education Funding: Townsend and LeClair, NY Assembly 115th District
Thanks to the Observer-Dispatch, we’ve got the local candidates’ views on education - grades and analysis below. The 115th District of the New York State Assembly covers Oneida and Oswego counties. Incumbent David Townsend [R] is being ch...
Yes, Bill Ayers is a “School Destroyer” - Social Justice Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
[ Photo: William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, compares tattoos with a developing revolutionary. When asked the location of Ayers' tattoo[s], our young comrade repl...
“There’s Always One Place Where You’ll Be Welcomed With Open Arms: Academia.”
Click to skip right to Indoctrinate U’s deleted scene. Indoctrinate U is a wonderful documentary film about the injection of politics into higher education. If you haven’t seen it, pop over to their site and grab a copy. All this talk abo...
A Million Takes on Bill Ayers, Terrorist and Educator Extraordinaire
[ Photo: William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, compares tattoos with a developing revolutionary. When asked the location of Ayers' tattoo[s], our young comrade repl...
Who’s Behind the Academic Cabal Supporting Bill Ayers?
For a brief history of Bill Ayers and public education, check out “Revisiting AERA, Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground and Public Education.” It’s a 3,500-word crash course in Ayers, AERA, the Weather Underground and why it all mat...
Marianna, Florida Teacher and Obama’s CHANGE Message - Another Look
I‘m really too busy to write this, but I couldn’t let this one go. At the heart of this discussion is how journalism, especially re: education, is lacking. The issue is a Florida teacher who wrote on the whiteboard a racially-insensitive ...
Manchester College: Vapid, Faddish, Contradictory
When the National Association of Scholars’ Argus Project was announced, the usual suspects cried foul - ideological bias, “witchhunt,” another effort by that Conservative front group for God-knows-what, etc. Tripe, tripe, tripe. I w...
Yes, I Think Accreditation Is a Joke
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni is one of the most honest, intellectually responsible groups involved in education [yes, I know that honest + responsible + education makes up a very short list]. Their newest contribution is about accredit...
