Posted by: preaprez on: 28 Mar, 2008
The latest entry on the Columbus Education Association blog has more data about White Hat Management’s Ohio charters.
One of the main arguments for charters made by their proponents has been that they can and will provide a quality education to underserved students.
What did the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) find?
Did White Hat provide services to [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: 28 Mar, 2008
As I reported, March is turning out to be a huge month for visitors to this blog. Coming up on one year on WordPress (but four years blogging), here is some data from the past year:
Top 5 Clicks
Small Talk
Eduwonkette
Susan Ohanian
NYC Educator
IEA
Top 5 Search Terms
“Behind bars”
“Steve Barr”
“NCLB”
“PREA Prez”
“Fred Klonsky”
Top 5 Posts
Green Dot calling.
Chicago’s juvenile detention center [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: 28 Mar, 2008
From EdWeek:
A judge has ordered the release of e-mail messages from the workstations of five Wisconsin Rapids School District teachers requested by a Vesper man.
Adams County Circuit Court Judge Charles Pollex, acting as a substitute judge in the Wood County case, says the documents requested by Don Bubolz are open records.
Bubolz said in July he [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: 28 Mar, 2008
It’s one thing for bloggers to start a post with “this sounds like a story from The Onion, but it’s true,” and then go on to report some story about stupid decisions that some education bureaucrat made or a dumb piece of education legislation that some politician proposed.
But it really isn’t that creative or clever [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: 28 Mar, 2008
Florida: Yesterday I posted about Florida’s legislatively mandated history curriculum. Today, we get to look at their proposed science curriculum, which mandates the teaching of creationism.
This, from the National Center for Science Education.
Texas (Oy. Texas!): This story about middle school principal who threatened to kill a group of science teachers if their students did not [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: 28 Mar, 2008
I posted last week about NY’s change in the law which would prevent the use of test scores in awarding tenure.
Of course, the Chancellor is against it. The wonkers and republicrat bloggers are against it. But our friend NYC Educator posts about a colleague in a story that is illustrative:
I recently wrote about a colleague [...]
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