School Violence is a Continuum
By Liz Manvell March 29, 2012 12:04 pm
In Chardin, Ohio the morning-after talk was all too familiar…
Why did he do it?
He just gunned them down.
Did he target certain students or was it random?
Was he a troublemaker, an outcast, bullied?
Did we miss the
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School Reform: Replace the Coaches – Not the Team
By Paul White March 7, 2012 2:28 pm
No education reform article I’ve ever read accurately identified the two real stumbling blocks to improving our K-12 school system. The reason is because almost all of them are written by school administrators and not teachers.
Our schools are melting…
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How Do We Really Begin To Leave No Child Behind?
By Chris Janotta February 1, 2012 4:05 pm
A politician running for office was recently asked how she would make sure that all parents are involved in their children’s education. While she admitted parental involvement is a huge factor in one’s educational success, she also admitted she had…
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Sara Ferguson: “I Represented All Teachers”
By EdVoices January 25, 2012 10:56 am
Sara Ferguson, a teacher from Chester Upland School District in Pennsylvania, was a special guest at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address Tuesday.
I’m a runner, and before every race I write students’ names on my…
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Get students thinking critically about bullying – through comics
By Shahan Panth January 9, 2012 10:25 am
Bullying prevention has been generating lots of discussion lately, but one group that we don’t hear from enough is kids. It would be nice if we could ‘solve’ the problem for them, but top-down directives and zero tolerance policies alone…
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Test Scores, Test Scores, Almighty Test Scores
By Chris Janotta November 17, 2011 10:08 am
A while back I wrote a blog proposing that teachers finally give in and use nothing but test scores to evaluate teachers. Since that time I’ve been doing some thinking, and I decided why stop there? Standardized tests…
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Manufactured Controversies: How Non-Educator “Education Experts” Twist the Truth
By Dave Reber November 1, 2011 4:01 pm
There are times, as a teacher of biology, when I suffer what I call “math envy.” See, none of my math teacher colleagues ever have to defend the fact that 2 + 2 = 4. This is a well-established fact;…
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Bullying Is a Social Justice Issue
By David Sheridan October 28, 2011 12:11 pm
We are now hearing reports that Hispanic schoolchildren in Alabama face bullying in the wake of that state’s anti-immigrant law.
A 12-year girl who is a citizen and whose father is from Puerto Rico is called a “damn…
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Bullying Prevention: School Support Staff Are Essential
By Joann Morris October 12, 2011 10:11 am
Where do you think most student bullying takes place? While some bullying occurs in the classroom, the most common places are on the school bus, in the hallways, in the stairwells, in the lunchroom, and on the playground.
What do…
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Education Budget Cuts in Florida
By Rita Solnet October 11, 2011 4:42 pm
Cents and Sensibility… Inside Florida Education
We’ve all heard this expression numerous times this year,“We must tighten our belts” with regards to education. Whose belts are we tightening in the education arena anyways?
Or, did they mean a noose around…
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The Campaign Cometh
If anything is clear about the presidential election so far, it's that nothing is very clear at all. We have reached the first phase of the campaign where the key is for both candidates to define themselves and each other…
"… we do not have a sustainable society"
when too few have too much and too many have too little, we do not have a sustainable society The words are from Bernard Rapoport, known to his friends simply as B. I have been reflecting upon them…
How standardized tests are affecting public schools
Florida’s standardized testing program is being misused and has “severely impacted student learning,” according to a new white paper that says that school districts in the state are required to give as many as 62 tests a year to…
Math homework
Look at this picture of 8th grade math scores according to the amount of daily homework. Note that students in the first column are running roughly two years behind students in the second column. Now I have no idea what’s…
Why college tuitions are rising: A contrarian view
This was written by Gary C. Fethke, professor and former dean of the Henry B. Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, and Andrew J. Policano, dean of the Paul Merage School of Business at the University…
4 reasons educators must get in the game and fight ALEC
ALEC’s “whack-a-mole” legislative strategy can be defeated by public school advocates working together.
Taking Schools and Education to Another Level With Digital Publishing
On Thursday May 17, 2012, I was fortunate to attend the Adobe Digital Publishing Summit in New York City. I was accompanied by NMHS Adobe guru Walt Pevny, who consistently integrates technology…
"B"
On Tuesday evening, May 15, I found myself sitting, along with more than 400 other people, in a small ballroom of an elite Washington DC hotel to attend a memorial service for a man I had never met. For…
Video Interlude: Teachers "Dance Bomb" Students [Pranks]
Here, MA teachers engage in an elaborate teacher-on-student prank, which is the reverse of the usual practice: "Dance bombing," like photo bombing, is an Internet fad (sort of like planking was back in 2011). I associate it with…
Duncan to Florida: Tutoring Doesn’t Work
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said today he doesn't understand why Florida passed a law requiring districts to continue offering free tutoring to students in struggling schools. Florida is one of 11 states that got a waiver…
