At least this test-preparation didn’t steal instructional time…
According to the St. Pete Times blog The Gradebook, a small-town Florida elementary principal and several of her teachers prayed for student success the Friday evening before the state writing test early this month. Then they anointed student desks with prayer oil. Apart from the church-state issues involved—praying for your students on your own time is […]
Politician’s logic on school reform
According to the St. Pete Times Gradebook, the Florida House education committee chair is interested in mandating single-sex classrooms and uniforms for low-rated schools: “Something has to be done to improve D and F schools. What we’re doing now is not enough.” As fans of Yes, Prime Minister‘s Antony Jay would recognize, this is politician’s […]
Shameless book plugs
If you visit my home page, you’ll now see links to a brief bio as well as to separate pages describing the four books I’ve written or co-edited: Creating the Dropout Schools as Imagined Communities* Education Reform in Florida* Accountability Frankenstein If my guess is right, the latest two books will be appearing in press […]
Arizona legislators want historians to stop talking about Brown v. Board of Education
John Wilson points out the obvious flaws in Arizona SB 1612, the latest attempt to channel David Horowitz’s idiocy. To wit, the proposed 15-511(D)(3) Arizona Statutes would be created, prohibiting Arizona faculty from being able to … Endorse, support or oppose any pending or proposed litigation in a local, state or federal court or endorse, support […]
Hot cocoa
By Sherman Dorn on February 16, 2007
We’re expecting an Arctic mass coming through the Gulf and to Florida overnight, so it might be freezing overnight, but right now it’s a Florida-freezing but everywhere-else-toasty 50 F. In sympathy with everyone who’s reading this from snow country, and because I have a head cold while trying to ignore my e-mail and finish a […]
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