10% of public K-12 teachers work part-time
I’m working with a friend on a small project about teacher persistence (I’m just assisting in some technical details). And then he told me something that I didn’t know before: 10% of public K-12 teachers are part-time. We have to exclude this population from study because the estimates of some key variables by age group […]
To inspiring teachers
Military historian Mark Grimsley writes today about visiting his ninth-grade teacher Billie Cranford. Go read. Just go read it.
The answer to the ultimate question of dropping out, graduating, and unit records
As someone who blogs about K-12 and higher education, I should perhaps do something productive with this crossover, right? And since at the conclusion of my next solar circumnavigation I’m going to be the answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (at least according to Douglas Adams), while I may not […]
Ruling on Federal ‘No Child’ Lawsuit
The Hartford Courant reported last week on the federal court dismissal of three of the state’s four claims about Margaret Spellings’s denial of waivers for the testing in Connecticut. A reader might find the title—State’s ‘No Child’ Lawsuit Still Alive—a little odd, but the headline is accurate. Technically, the judge said that courts couldn’t rule […]
I blame Bob Mondello
By Sherman Dorn on October 1, 2006
My family loves me. After all, I’m still alive after they came with me to Half Nelson, which I asked for since Bob Mondello gave it a positive review in August. It didn’t open in Tampa, so we had to wait until it came here this week at the Tampa Theatre. (Warning: movie spoiler ahead.) Mondello’s […]
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