I found this brief news article on a community forum from one of Wyoming’s larger school districts (Large is a relative term in Wyoming! I did a keynote address on technology and social media in education to a group of superintendents and one superintendent in the room had twice as many students in his district [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
Community input on school issues: Are we just too busy?
December 5th, 2009 1 Comment
Tags: communication · community forums · community input · school politics
More calls for changes in teacher preparation
November 2nd, 2009 1 Comment
Colleges of Education are under fire……again!
The NYT is talking about it here;
Here is an excerpt for if you don’t have time to read the article:
Our best universities have, paradoxically, typically looked down their noses at education, as if it were intellectually inferior. The result is that the strongest students are often in colleges that have [...]
Tags: teacher preparation
Do you feel disheartened and disappointed in your job?
October 22nd, 2009 5 Comments
How do you feel about your job? How do your teaching colleagues feel about theirs? Education Week recently reported on a survey asking teachers about their job satisfaction. Here is a quote:
Two out of five of America’s 4 million K-12 teachers appear disheartened and disappointed about their jobs, while others express a variety of reasons [...]
Tags: teacher morale · teacher satisfaction
Why do teachers have dents on each side of their head?
August 24th, 2009 3 Comments
In Lee Jenkins book, Permission to Forget, he explains why teachers have dents on each side of their head.
It is from getting hit on the head by the pendulum that swings from one extreme to the other in education.
Let’s see how many examples we can come up with.
How about the Reading Wars. The constant debates [...]
Tags: education · professional development · teachers
Asia Rising - U.S. Decline…Really?
August 17th, 2009 No Comments
Over the decades, U.S. education reform efforts have largely been driven by U.S. paranoia over losing world economic dominance.
Remember Sputnik? When Americans thought Russia was going to beat them to the moon it drove NASA to the moon and it brought with it an emphasis on Math and Science.
Then it was Japan that was the [...]
Tags: Asia · economic policy · eduational policy · education reform · India · stadrdized testing
Update on Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF)
August 6th, 2009 No Comments
As some of our readers would already know, Barack Obama and Arne Duncan have made “teacher incentive compensation” a centerpiece of their education reform efforts. Millions have been set aside in the budget for piloting various teacher compensation plans that have accountability and assessment requirements built in.
Education Week has a few updates on it here [...]
Tags: merit pay · performance pay · teacher incentives · TIF
Jim Horn explains the “mumbo jumbo to the dumbos!”
July 30th, 2009 1 Comment
Over at Schools Matter, Jim Horn explains to Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, what all that teacher education mumbo jumbo is about.
Governor Daniels has never been fond of public education, but now he wants to revamp teacher education programs in Indiana by requiring students to take more content courses in the subject area that teachers want to be [...]
Tags: Arne Duncan · learning · Mitch Daniels · teacher colleges · teacher preparation · teaching
Study says two-thirds of charter schools are inferior
June 23rd, 2009 1 Comment
Stanfod University has conducted a study that says two out of three charter schools offer an inferior education to traditional public schools.
“Despite promising results in a number of states and within certain subgroups, the overall findings of this report indicate a disturbing — and far-reaching — subset of poorly performing charter schools,” the report says.
Here [...]
Tags: charter schools
NCLB opinions
June 9th, 2009 No Comments
Some of you folks may remember the late, great Lowell Rose. Lowell was at Indiana University for years and helped with the Gallup Polls on education and Phi Delta Kappan. He was well respected around the country and a very ardent supporter of public education.
Here is a great op ed piece criticizing NCLB in the [...]
Tags: Indianapolis star · Lowell Rose · NCLB · Politics · public education
Note to Educational Leaders: “If you don’t blog to them, eventually they will just blog about you.”
May 1st, 2009 5 Comments
“Not me! Absolutely not me!” stammered Randy, my friend and colleague. The discussion at the superintendent’s meeting had turned to blogging. “I get enough criticism as it is. I don’t need another whacko taking pot shots at me from left field on the internet,” he added. He winced as he said it. “Why should [...]
Tags: bloggers · educational leaders · leaders who blog · leadership blogging · technology leadership
