Gov. Cuomo said he’s still optimistic about a teacher evaluation deal by Thursday. (State Ed Watch)
Jodi Rudoren, the New York Times’ education editor, will head the paper’s Jerusalem bureau. (Politico)
Principal Bernard Gassaway explains his strategy to improve Boys & Girls High School. (Insideschools)
A look at the teacher quality initiatives in President Obama’s proposed budget. (Teacher Beat)
A teacher outlines what would help his school improve instead of “turnaround.” (GS Community)
One woman’s suggestions for the state education commission that doesn’t yet exist. (SchoolBook)
A nerdy group of edu-Twitterers have been posting 140-character “eduvalentines.” (Twitter) Here’s a few:
http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/ Norm
Why wasn’t the NY Times article on HSA principal linked? Since this morning it has disappeared from the Schoolbook site and doesn’t appear on the Times web site, strange since it was in today’s print edition. Read commentary at ed notes.
Revealing Interview With Harlem Success Academy Principal http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2012/02/revealing-interview-with-harlem-success.html
Bernard Gassaway’s heart and mind make sense about the F-rating predicament of Boys and Girls. The school’s hyper-segregation (89 % black) and poverty (69% free lunch) create a perfect storm of urban ed dysfunction. On the basis of two ATR stints there, here are my culture changing recommendations: end pants on the ground and the streaming F and N bombs. In other words, take the street out of the school.
Mastersdegreeprogramsonline
This post includes all information that I have always required. Although on internet we find a lot of information but the practical information is limited which you have originated in this post.
Flerplunk
See Occam’s Razor [Blade]. The simplest solution is known to everybody.
NB: It was really intimidating to enter the school this morning with all the security measures. Don’t you think it is demoralizing for the students?
BG: No. It is necessary. The third day into my work at Boys and Girls High school, there was a fight in the girls locker-room where one girl sliced another down her chest with a razor. The safety measures in place have reduced violent incidents, and it gives students and staff protection and a sense of security. We want to err on the side of caution. Until we can solve the issues that cause violence, the guards and metal detector will stay in place.
Also, don’t forget schools like Brooklyn Tech and other selective schools also have incidents where students carry weapons. The difference is no one hears about it because they can kick out students and then Department of Education assign those students to schools such as ours.
Michael Fiorillo
Flerplunk,
Without getting into the particulars of this discussion, you are mistaken about Occam’s Razor. It posits that the least complex explanation or hypothesis for a phenomenon is the likeliest to be valid (Source: math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/occam.html).
It has to do with explanations for events, not solutions to problems or dilemmas, as you state.
ASTRAKA
There is nothing more dangerous, in science and mathematics, than incomplete knowledge.
Philip Nobile
Example of Occam’s Razor: “When I hear hoofbeats, I think of horses not zebras.
Flerplunk
Excellent. I considered responding by re-framing my usage in terms of explanations rather than solutions (e.g., the simplest explanation for the extreme dysfunction in certain schools is those schools’ inability to kick extremely dysfunctional students out), but I think that would be perverse. So I thank you for correctly pointing out my sloppiness.
Jot
Flerpi
Being in a discussion that you know nothing about what a surprise.
Time and again you prove your extreme dysfunction maybe you should be kicked out? How many here would think that’s perverse?
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