The grading of state tests has begun along with complaints about how it’s done. (NYC P.S. Parents)
A city teacher says she’s uncomfortable with rules barring public talk about test content. (Ariel Sacks)
An Albany principal says N.Y. shouldn’t need a survey to learn its tests are too long. (Common Ground)
Teacher Will Johnson says setting “Student Learning Objectives” has downsides. (GS Community)
A student apologizes to his teacher 40 years after inexplicably offending him. (Oregonian)
A principal who is coaching again calls for more student-administrator interaction. (Practical Theory)
A first-grade father describes the fraught responsibility of providing class snacks. (Insideschools)
Andy Rotherham lists three obstacles to education reform, starting with money-sugarcoating. (Atlantic)
The quest for additional investigators for school cases has hit papers as help wanted ads. (NYCDOEnuts)
Jean McTavish, a transfer school principal, got in trouble in school for not pledging to the flag. (DNA Info)
McTavish has also opted her own children out of New Jersey’s state tests this year. (NYC P.S. Parents)
The principal of P.S. 112 in the Bronx dishes on how it felt when the school earned a D. (SchoolBook)
A national expert on high school dropouts says online credit recovery can be too easy. (Class Struggle)
A Teachers College prof says college students might be overdiagnosed as underprepared. (Economix)
http://twitter.com/nycdoenuts nycdoenuts
Just a quick thought about that picture I tweeted: In the 2010-11 school year, there were 69,170 teacher in New York City. A few years ago that number was closer to 80,000.
-We’ve lost 11,000 teachers over the past few years, but don’t worry; they’re hiring investigators.
#ChildrenFirst!
Pogue
Let the backlash begin against the education reform, test-crazed incompetents.
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