The state is unveiling teacher training proposals that could make ed schools unnecessary. (Times, AP)
A high school principal who resigned while being investigated was given another school to lead. (Post)
High school progress report grades out today won’t be as high as those for other schools. (Daily News)
A coalition of state senators has sworn to block Gov. Paterson’s midyear school budget cuts. (AP)
A Staten Island student was seriously injured in dangerous traffic outside Tottenville HS. (Post)
A nonprofit group that builds gyms in Africa is helping a Brooklyn school build one. (Brooklyn Paper)
The school-based H1N1-vaccine clinics were much busier this weekend than last week. (Times)
The Academy for Young Writers is looking for internships for its soon-to-graduate seniors. (Daily News)
The Daily News says New York State needs to step up and change laws to win Race to the Top funds.
The 500 school aides at risk of firing finally lost their jobs on Friday. (GothamSchools, Daily News)
A new look at the Posse Foundation, which sends city kids to top colleges in groups. (AP)
The Washington Post wants D.C. to turn over closed school buildings to charter schools.
Arizona’s charter schools, the most anywhere, aren’t outperforming district schools. (Washington Post)
Nationwide, as in New York City, a teacher shortage has become a teacher surplus. (AP)
Some teachers sell their lesson plans online, raising questions of property rights and propriety. (Times)
A movement is underfoot to replace “at-risk” with “at-promise,” Jay Mathews writes. (Washington Post)
Los Angeles’s superintendent is asking teachers to accept a 12 percent pay cut. (L.A. Times)
reality-based educator
I would neither buy nor sell my lesson plans online, but isn’t it hypocritical for education deformers to bring all kinds of business/Wall Street practices to public school systems like 1) bonus pay for manipulated stats 2) outsourcing of business to expensive outside consultants with ties to the powerful and of course 3) downsizing, as in closing schools and sending all those students to Francis Lewis High School or other overcrowded schools but criticize teachers for trying to cash in like everybody else seems to be doing?
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Thank you for keeping this important conversation going. Whether or not you believe in changing the focus from ‘at-risk’ to ‘at-promise,’ the fact remains that students need strong support systems, a community of teachers and others who believe in them, and schools to address their needs and teach them effectively. This discussion shows the value in reflection and communication about education in general.
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