PREA Prez Poll: Joel Klein?
2008 November 11
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Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk- Florida schools--Parallels to depression eraGood story from Lake Wales, Fl. The economic challenges that followed the Florida real estate bust in 1926 and the devastating hurricanes of 1926 and 1928 (called the Forgotten Storm--M.K.) reveal state and national parallels with the Great Depression and the Great Recession of 2007-08. In 1931, Florida ranked 43rd in average teacher pay and 39th in money sp […]
- Florida schools--Parallels to depression era
- JD2718
- Success at ResolvingLast year, for the first time in a long time, I made New Years resolutions. And more or less kept them. (cut hair, get rid of car) It helped, a lot, that I was resolving to do things I already had in process. After the first two went well, I added another. It was also in process, [...]
- Success at Resolving
- The Jose Vilson blog
- Year-In-Review 2009: Boy, You’re Gonna Carry That Weight For a Long Time!Young James Kirk looks at the USS Starship Enterprise, Star Trek 2009 may never leave me alone. We go through these crazy up-and-downs, hoping not to leave too much on the cutting room of this movie we call our lives. None of the lessons get left on the floor, though. They stick around, secretly making their way into our laments and celebrations. It’s […]
- Year-In-Review 2009: Boy, You’re Gonna Carry That Weight For a Long Time!
- NYC Educator
- Happy New YearI want to wish a happy and healthy 2010 to everyone and anyone reading this. I certainly hope for better things. Perhaps something will fall on Chancellor Klein's head, causing a synapse to connect--and he will wake up and realize that his "reforms" have done nothing whatsoever to help the 1.1 million children who attend NYC schools. Of course […]
- Happy New Year
- TuttleSVC
- "Disruptive Innovation" Gone WrongOne thing about business books about cool ideas like "disruptive innovation" is that they naturally emphasize the successes of whatever approach they're interested and not the negative cases. In particular, it is hard to think of a failed "disruptive innovation."Here's one that anyone working in the ed-tech trenches in the last […]
- "Disruptive Innovation" Gone Wrong
