Archive for November, 2007
A child of five could understand this. Someone go fetch a child of five. – Groucho Marx
Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk- Pedro Noguera to Duncan..."Stop bashing ed schools!"Secretary Duncan would be more likely to move the nation’s education agenda forward if he did less scolding and more encouraging. As the occupant of the most visible bully pulpit in the field, he might do this by offering and soliciting suggestions on ways to invigorate schools—not with more testing, but with creative appr […]
- Pedro Noguera to Duncan...
- JD2718
- Top referrersTaking a look at where readers come from – the primary answer is – IDK. Wandering in? Search engines? Readers? E-mailed links? But a chunk, maybe 10-20%, leave a trace, and wordpress keeps count. Here’s the top ten all time blog referrers to this site: edwize.org the UFT’s blog pissedoffteeacher.blogspot.com a math teacher in another […]
- Top referrers
- The Jose Vilson blog
- Augmented RealityHeath Ledger In the latest edition of Esquire Magazine (yes, I read Esquire, at least once a year, particularly their end of the year specials), Stephen Marche has an article entitled, “A Thousand Words About Our Culture: Aren’t We Enjoying All This Death A Little Too Much?” In it, he analyzes this idea of celebrity death, its permutations, […]
- Augmented Reality
- NYC Educator
- Don't Even Go ThereHere's a story about a principal who's going to prison for having sex with a 16-year-old. They just added another nine months to his sentence for more sex with a 16-year-old. How on earth does a guy like that get a gig taking care of children? And how many times did he do this before he got caught? He got a couple of years, but I'd have little […]
- Don't Even Go There
- TuttleSVC
- Its not Easy to Focus on the WinnerClaus von Zastrow & Ashley Merriman:Merryman:...So I was suggesting in my column that if we focus on the success of kids, which is actually the normative behavior, perhaps we can use that to further improve where we are going. Everybody loves a winner, right? So focus on that success, even in the at-risk situations. Maybe that is sort of a way to improve […]
- Its not Easy to Focus on the Winner
