Remainders: Vaccines, gourmet tacos in store for students

by Maura Walz, at 7:58 pm

A veteran teacher believes Race to the Top is built on ten flawed assumptions.
Michelle Rhee said people should not assume that laid-off teachers are bad teachers.
There are still more than 5,000 open pre-k spots, but many are in half-day sessions.
Pissed Off Teacher finds out that one of her freshman students did not pass a single eighth grade class.
About 600,000 students will be eating Rachel Ray’s chicken taco recipe at school on Thursday.
School nurses will be giving swine flu vaccinations at 125 elementary schools on Wednesday.
Jonathan Gyurko remembers when Ted Sizer visited his school in South Africa.
Columbia Teachers College’s Susan Fuhrman is the new head of the National Academy of Education.
Teacher Beat wonders if seniority in hiring is on its way out.
Data systems linking students to teacher prep should be experiments, not policy, writes Aaron Pallas.
Parents were sweating bullets at last week’s gifted and talented info sessions, reports Michael McCurdy.
And Jay Mathews wonders what it’s like to be suspended. (He wouldn’t know; he was a goody-goody.)

NYC Educator

I never assumed they were bad teachers. I assumed Michelle Rhee wanted to fire whomever she wished, whenever she wished, for any reason whatsoever or no reason at all.

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