I was looking at the HT database of salaries for Indiana University employees and discovered something interesting: a lot of people at IU make a lot of money. Nearly 1,000 employees make over $100,000.00 per…
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The Game of Life: IU’s Newest HR Consultant
This morning, as I was reading the front page of the HT I overheard my kids and a friend playing “Life.” Someone landed on “you learn CPR,” and I grumbled to myself about just going through…
“Highly Qualified” to do…what exactly?
Today I took a Praxis II exam for English Language Arts (there are several types of these purporting to test one’s knowledge of things such as composition, literature, teaching writing, etc.) as a necessary (required)…
HT Editorial: Of course longer school days are better, who would argue?
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…
“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”…
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? …