I would. The editorial today titled “Longer school day opens opportunities” basically just repeats the story written by Bethany Nolan on Thursday this week called “Longer days to fill needs at MCCSC”. I would link…
Date Archives July 2011
“News” as Marketing–All the Voucher help you need!
This brief piece from the Lafayette Journal and Courier has a particular story to tell, summed up in the following paragraphs: “I have no qualms with the public schools,” Pendley said. “I just know he’ll…
Vouchers: Degrade and Defund
A local blog by Steve Hinnefeld called School Matters offers this report on a standards testing success at two elementary schools in Lafayette. Hinnefeld makes this observation: But at least with Murdock and Thomas Miller,…
Learning Cursive: Minds in Our Hands
[Editor’s note: a portion of the below was published by the Herald Times as a Guest Column on July 19th.] The July 17th commentary by Mike Leonard in the Herald Times regarding “cursors over cursive”…
Bad Teacher(s)?
As one who reads reviews of movies far more often than seeing the movies themselves, I must point out that “Bad Teacher” was not on my list of must-see movies; not only is it a…
Standardized Tests: Ideology in the Guise of Impartial “Measurement”
How aware are you of how schools (systems and single–like districts or single elementary or secondary units) are measured “successful”? Graduation rates? Percentage of graduates pursuing further education? Percentage of graduates employed? Percentage of drop-outs? …