What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
President Barack Obama wants schools to have more mental health professionals and resource officers in order to better prevent violence. He also wants to provide training to teachers to recognize when young people need help and know how to refer those students to the right mental health services.
hmmmm
Alfie Kohn goes beyond the conventional wisdom about children’s imaginative play and explains how some of the new thinking about play isn’t quite right.
How children’s ‘play’ is being sneakily redefined – The Washington Post
Yup
Campaigner Malala Yousafzai calls for more to be done to educate millions of Syrian refugee children denied access to school.
Malala Yousafzai warns of education gap for Syrian refugees – BBC News
sigh
“If I have to keep my students inside / One more time, for recess, I’m gonna lose my mind”
Source: Watch This Teacher’s Elaborate Adele Parody About Snow Days | TIME
heh
I mean, I really, really, really love these guys.
God, I love these guys
A major factor driving increasing costs is the constant expansion of university administration. According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions.
Even more strikingly, an analysis by a professor at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, found that, while the total number of full-time faculty members in the C.S.U. system grew from 11,614 to 12,019 between 1975 and 2008, the total number of administrators grew from 3,800 to 12,183 — a 221 percent increase.
The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much – The New York Times
Trust the NYT to bury the lead.
Workers at a Detroit school say a cycle of neglect is having a devastating effect on the children’s future and they are fed up.
Detroit teachers: Fix ‘hazardous’ school – CNN.com
Fix this!
Fuck Duncan, fuck NCLB, Fuck Common Core.
This.
Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a public middle school in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the poorest neighborhood in New York City, is seen by many as a safe zone in a crime-plagued area, and a gateway out of generational poverty.
A Brooklyn School’s Curriculum Includes Ambition – NYTimes.com
Ahhh… A HONY inspired break from the bad news.
I think it is patently unfair and -in the short, medium, and long run- totally inefficient to judge schools, students, and teachers with a set of one-size-fits-all numbers. Students are not one size fits all. Many triumphs and tragedies are hidden in averages and means. That said…
Given the starting point for most of these students, this school’s numbers are incredibly impressive.
When a 12-year-old Idaho girl told a school lunch worker she was hungry but didn’t have any money, the woman gave her a free meal. She was later fired.
School lunch lady feeds hungry kid, gets fired
Sigh…
Controversy about fresco — which depicts slaves in a tobacco field and Native Americans threatening white settlers — emerges as schools nationwide debate racial history.
U. of Kentucky shrouds a 1934 mural that depicts African American slaves – The Washington Post
Sigh… The student make valid points.
Covering up the facts of our history o avoid making people uncomfortable makes me uncomfortable. If our country’s mistakes are better known and understood, we can better avoid repeating them.
The bill would largely shift authority from the federal government to states and districts.
Educators on the ground discuss what will work and what won’t.
School to Prison Pipeline: Government Releases New Guidelines to Fix It. What Do Teachers Think?
hmmmm
Forget the Common Core, Finland’s youngsters are in charge of determining what happens in the classroom.
hmmm
MTV News spoke to Robert McCaw, Department Manager of Government Affairs at CAIR, about a controversial new bill proposed in Tennessee that some say is Islamophobic.
Is This New Bill Trying To Stop Tennessee Schools From Teaching About Islam? – MTV
Hmmmm…..
We should ban religious indoctrination in all public schools. No, seriously. We should. No more teaching from a religious bias! Teach the reality and science of climate change instead! Factual information on reproductive health and sex for young people. No more diverting women away from STEM classes because it won’t fit their “future role.” Textbooks and lessons that are 100% honest about our country’s treatment of native peoples and African-Americans before and after slavery. Equal access to information for all!
Taking religion out of it sounds pretty good. I’m guessing that that is not what the good rep has in mind though.
The explosion in the number of needy children in classrooms has profound implications for the nation.
Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty
Sigh…
The response to Eastern New York Correctional Facility’s victory says a lot about class and race prejudices
hmmmm
A McGraw-Hill textbook given to children in Texas is referring to the slave trade as a “pattern of immigration.”
McGraw-Hill’s Geography Textbook Says African Slaves Were Paid “Workers”
Textbooks are an evil cesspool. Very few companies. Very few agendas that aren’t backwards and hateful.
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