- “We want our country back.” I don’t think so. Photo courtesy M. Ely
Charter schools: Choosing segregation. A couple of researchers have found that charters tend to be more racially isolated than their regular public school counterpart. “Racially isolated,” is academic speak for “white’s only.” So much for the Civil Rights Movement of our time, eh?
Stephen Krashen writes to the NY Times in response to the increasingly annoying Thomas Friedman, reminding him that the 800 pound gorilla in the room when it comes to improving teaching and learning is poverty.
How many conversations like this took place this Thanksgiving? The family gathers around the holiday table. Turkey, cranberries and sweet potatoes with marshmallows are passed. And then the conversation shifts to uncle Bill or Aunt Mary, the school teacher in the family. Fingers are pointed and uncle Bill or Aunt Mary finds they have to defend ”bad teachers,” tenure and teacher unions from attacks by John, Samantha’s husband, who is a hedge fund manager. Ah, family.
Working for the DREAM Act. Juventud que no hace temblar al mundo no es juventud.
I cannot recount all my riches.
I don’t need. to. I do not need to justify my choice to teach to someone else. I don’t believe that he who dies with the most toys win. I am not interested in trading my life for that of a “master of the universe” operating a hedge fund or dealing with mergers and acquisitions.
What good are any kind of riches if we do not take them time to enjoy them?
I can never fully exhaust what I already have.
Each day brings me more riches – of experience, of memories, of new people, of opportunity to learn.
So I think I will now go further enrich myself, simply by living my own life, and not worrying about comparison myself to others.
How about you? teacherken
Fred Klonsky 