Archive for January, 2008
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid. – John Dewey
Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk- Inside Chicago's school "renaissance"No "choice" for embattled Fenger kidsOn Thursday, 10 students filed a federal lawsuit against Chicago Public Schools, alleging that their constitutional right to a public education is being denied because the district will not allow them to transfer and they fear going to Fenger in the wake of Albert's death and their own experiences with viol […]
- Inside Chicago's school "renaissance"
- JD2718
- Neighborhood schoolsWhy don’t we have neighborhood high schools in the Bronx? Why no zoned high schools? School choice in Manhattan often (not always) means good choice. But school choice in the Bronx is mostly a joke. Why is nobody responsible for providing each kid for a reasonable default option, if they just want to go to a regular [...]
- Neighborhood schools
- The Jose Vilson blog
- A New Moon (My First Kiss)Full Moon It’s been a long time since I’ve shared any work from the Acentos workshops on Sunday. I didn’t share this at the workshop because I got shy. Yes, I have that emotion in my arsenal. Follow: My first kiss was the sweetest “Shut the F*k Up” I’d ever gotten from the first of many curvy, sassy, infuriating, mostly-ol […]
- A New Moon (My First Kiss)
- NYC Educator
- Now That's ConfidenceGee willikers. Sarah Palin has banned all cell phones and recording devices from her book tour.
- Now That's Confidence
- TuttleSVC
- The Problem with Teachers' Self-Reporting on their own InnovativenessLarry Cuban really nails a real annoyance-slash-structural-problem with teacher blogging about practice, particularly their own, particularly about technology:Over the years, I have interviewed many teachers across the country who have described their district’s buying computers, deploying them in classrooms while providing professional development. These te […]
- The Problem with Teachers' Self-Reporting on their own Innovativeness
