January 2011 Blog Posts (87)

Alabama’s Tough New Anti-Union Laws—A Boon for Organizing?

In 1954, education in the United States was supposed to change. The inequities that young children of color had faced for decades were to be erased giving equal access to everyone. Finally, there was to be diversity in education.

But what did…

School Lunch Lies: Green Meals = Overpriced Junk

Revolution Foods claims that they can provide organic, eco-friendly meals cooked from scratch for the same cost as government subsidized free lunches. However, while they charge approximately $3 per lunch for their cheapest meals (slightly…

Teacher Evaluations: Presumption of Incompetence…

Thousands Protest Dutch Education Cuts

Between 11,000 and 15,000 Dutch students and professors demonstrated today against cuts to education spending. The cuts will force some university students to pay an extra $4,000 per year in fees and lead to the…

The “College and Career Ready” Farce

Schools around the country are tossing out the old “College for All” slogan and replacing it with the popular Obama-school cliché, “College and Career Ready.”

However, when you get right down to it, “College and Career Ready” is really…

Amid a fanfare of musical instruments, (incidentally taught in school) Mr Gove has announced a marvellous new review of the curriculum. Clearly the curriculum must be so broken that it needs the "expertise" of Mr Gove to fix it. I guess it is probably teachers, or the Labour party or the quangos who are to blame for the curriculum not doing what it should.

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AFT Plan to Overhaul Teacher Discipline

I am passionate about Leadership!

I spent 14 years as an Elementary School Principal and 5 years as a Project Director of a Title VII Language and Literacy program. 19 years in Leadership that were exciting but often times, very challenging.

In that time, as a building, program and instructional…

California’s School Crisis

10% of California’s school districts are in serious budget trouble, with 91 reporting that they may be insolvent within two years and ten districts already there. While the situation looks bleak, it is an improvement over last…

Private Charters Score Another Victory in L.A.

For the second time in LAUSD history, Los Angeles school officials are ceding control of one of their schools to private companies. Watts’ Jordan High School, a low performing “turnaround” school will be split into three campuses. The school’s 200 teachers will have to reapply for their jobs or find…

Christie Approves 23 New Charter Schools

Making good on promises to privatize Jersey schools, Governor Chris Christie announced Tuesday the approval of 23 new charter schools, including ones that are single-sex and that emphasize online learning. This would bring the total number of charter schools in New Jersey to 97 (and help him in his quest to…