You can never complain about the US tenure process again . . ....
Teach for America vs. National Board Certification
If pressed to name my ultimate professional passion and goal—the thing I was put on earth to do—it might be something like “elevate the ideas and voices of excellent teachers.” Like many people in America, I think we can do a vastly better job of educating all our kids, across the socio-economic spectrum....
Education: LISTEN TO THIS MAN!
How do you personally feel about the future of American education?I’m panicked, I’m worried. I think if we continue along the path that we’re going, our greatest days are behind us. But, I still believe we can turn it around. That’s why I’m still in the classroom, and I’m gonna do my best. But as...
Childhood Food Insecurity / 10% of US Population Now on Food Stamps
Food StampsA record 32.2 million Americans are receiving food stamp assistance. As the economy grows bleak, 10 percent of the U.S. population fall below the threshold.Food Insecurity The states with the highest rates of food insecure children under 5 years of age. Food Insecure: unable to consistently...
More from the Textbook Wars
[Houston Chronicle] Texas high school students would learn about such significant individuals and milestones of conservative politics as Newt Gingrich and the rise of the Moral Majority — but nothing about liberals — under the first draft of new standards for public school history textbooks. . . [read...
Race and Diversity in the Age of Obama
Wide ranging summary of current research on race, "assimilation," immigration, and inequality in America, by Orlando Patterson.h/t Neuroanthropolo...
NYT: Do Teachers Need Education Degrees?
Our new dean mentioned this posting to our college this week.http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/education-degrees-and-teachers-pa...
How can we use bad measures in decisionmaking?
Reposted from my personal blog:I had about 20 minutes of between-events time Thursday morning and used it to catch up on two interesting papers on value-added assessment and teacher evaluation--the Jesse Rothstein piece using North Carolina data and the Koedel-Betts replication-and-more with San Diego...
Testing and the False Promise of Educational Improvement
As New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg moves toward near certain reelection, an interesting article appeared in the New York Times last week, looking at his stewardship of the public school system: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/nyregion/04scores.html?_r=1&ref=education. The numbers look impressive....
Reforming Juvenile Justice
An editorial in today's New York Times discusses a successful effort to reduce the number of children sent to detention facilities:Closely supervising young offenders, instead of incarcerating them, did not increase the youth crime rate or the risk to public safety. Similar programs have since been...
Your Brain on Chaos
No, I don't understand this either. But it seems important and cool:HAVE you ever experienced that eerie feeling of a thought popping into your head as if from nowhere, with no clue as to why you had that particular idea at that particular time? You may think that such fleeting thoughts, however random...
A teacher explains why she is leaving
originally posted at Daily KosIt happens all the time. People come into teaching, full of enthusiasm, sometimes accompanied by real talent. But they do not stay. After all, we lose half of those entering into teaching before they start their sixth year, the bulk of those before they start their...
I Learned it at the Movies
I learned it at the movies When the psychologists tested all the students a week later, the verdict for classroom movies was one thumb up, one thumb down. Watching the films did clearly help the students learn more—but only when the information was the same in both text and film. Apparently the vividness...
Stick-to-it-tiveness
The truth about gritModern science builds the case for an old-fashioned virtue - and uncovers new secrets to success.In recent years, psychologists have come up with a term to describe this mental trait: grit. Although the idea itself isn’t new - “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration,”...
From the AACTE Weekly Briefs
Teacher Training Faces Overhaul From the Indianapolis StarProposed rules being unveiled today would give Indiana teachers a new mandate: what you teach matters more than how you teach. A broad series of changes proposed by Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett would require even elementary...
Good news for EPB!
We posted an article that we thought you and your readers might be interested in having a look at, "100 Best Blogs for Teachers of the Future" I am happy to let you know that your site has been included in this list. http://www.clearvieweducation.com/blog/2009/100-best-blogs-for-teachers-of-the-future/...