English Teacher Ruins Christmas for Everyone
From the Lynn Item’s Controversial course sours Christmas for some students: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. That is unless you are in Irene Dalton’s sixth-grade English class at Swampscott Middle School. A number of parents are upset with a lesson plan taught by Dalton in her English class. Parent Diana Travascio said she [...]
Democrats may get their diploma
From Tim Egan’s The Party of Yesterday: “Two years ago, a list of the nation’s brainiest cities was put together from Census Bureau reports — that is, cities with the highest percentage of college graduates, which is not the same as smart, of course….Among the top 10, only two of those metro areas…voted Republican in [...]
George Washington Was A Domestic Terrorist
So, I’m sure we’ve all heard about the Obama/Ayers connection. William Ayers is the bomb-planting radical of the Weather Underground, a violent group from the 1970s who were responsible for bombs going off at the NYC Police HQ, the U.S. Capitol building, and the Pentagon. Except for three Weathermen who blew themselves up while making [...]
I’m Linking To This Because My Wife’s A Public School Teacher Now.
From the Progressive’s One Teacher’s Cry: Why I Hate No Child Left Behind: “No Child Left Behind is a symptom of a larger problem: the attack on public education itself. Like the school choice effort, which uses public funds to finance private schools and cherry-pick the best students, No Child Left Behind is designed to [...]
Poultney’s Greatest Challenge Teacher
[Editor's note: This is shamelessly stolen from Jesse Pyle's post on "Servin' It Up," Green Mountain College's Service Learning & Sustainability blog]
“GMC’s K-12 Outreach Coordinator of two years has managed — by her hard work, unflappable dedication to the Poultney schools, and countless other graces — to land a job as the Challenge Teacher in [...]
Nothing Like Tiny Village Living
From the Rutland Herald’s Poultney superintendent departs amid feud: “The relationship between the Poultney School District and its superintendent is so frayed there’s a chance the state troopers might be called on to escort [her] from the town’s high school graduation ceremonies today.”
Leave The Professor Alone!
From Open Culture’s Teaching on YouTube: “I had decided that I wanted the course to primarily consider how web 2.0 (in this case, specifically YouTube) is radically altering the conditions of learning (what, where, when, how we have access to information). Given that college students are rarely asked to consider the meta-questions of how they [...]
Yes, But What Do They Need To Know?
From Bob Herbert’s Clueless in America: “Bill Gates offered a brutal critique of the nation’s high schools a few years ago, describing them as ‘obsolete’…Said Mr. Gates: ‘By obsolete, I don’t just mean that they are broken, flawed or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I [...]
Life As A College-Educated Shaw’s Employee
From The Gynie Show’s My calculations are precise.: “My boss told me it’s not very nice to read a book while people are on break with me, he said they wanna talk and all I do is read. Not acceptable. I don’t get paid for my breaks. I sign out. But according to Brad, I [...]
On Last Night’s Debate
There were a few things that interested me during last night’s debate, and if you can’t blog about what interests you, what else should you blog about?
First, there was the tone of the debate. Senators Obama and Clinton were civil to each other throughout the debate, and at times, they were downright friendly; but there [...]
