Larry Cuban has a blog
I have a bunch of reading to catch up on, more than I thought I did a few minutes ago: Larry Cuban has a blog! (Hat tip.)
More TFA in Miami-Dade: where’s the money?
The Miami Herald is reporting today that Teach for America is going to send 350 recruits to the Miami-Dade school system, supported by a $6 million grant from the James L. Knight Foundation (hat tip). Thanks to the federal stimulus, the Miami school system avoided laying off hundreds of teachers this year, but it’s not as […]
William McKeen and me
On Sunday, the St. Petersburg Times published a bizarre column by University of Florida journalism chair William McKeen, who started off by asserting that UAH killer Amy Bishop is somehow presenting a case against tenure and then headed off into the mythical nethersphere of a world where all professors are tenured sloths. My response will […]
Title II proposal: TNTP, meet Florida’s “Ippy-Dippy”
The New Teacher Project has a new advocacy brief out proposing changes in ESEA’s Title II, which is supposed to focus on personnel development. Some of the observations and proposals make sense (let’s stop paying money for 90-minute drive-by “professional development”). Some are essentially using Title II as a vehicle for pushing other agendas (teacher […]
I cannot take credit for Sansom’s departure
Apparently Ray Sansom’s lawyer Gloria Fletcher has blamed bloggers for the downfall of her client. Since I was pretty active in writing about the Sansom affair in late 2008 and early 2009, maybe Ms. Fletcher means me… except that almost all I did was refer people by links to news stories written by Alex Leary […]