The pension-plan research I don’t have time to read right now…
The latest Education Finance and Policy issue is currently downloadable (apparently free of charge for the world for now) and all about teacher pensions. I am currently overloaded with prior commitments, so the chance of my reading this in a timely fashion is roughly nil. The questions I'll bring when I do read it: Do the […]
Re-run of Senate Bill 6 in Florida?
The St. Petersburg Times' blog is reporting that the foundation created by Jeb Bush is shopping a draft of a re-run of Senate Bill 6 with regard to teacher provisions.This draft carries over the parts of 2010’s Senate Bill 6 that pertain to teacher evaluation, pay, and employment status. Retained in significant or complete measure: the […]
Damnit, I missed another enemies list!
Apparently Fenwick English published an "enemies list" in the Fall 2010 UCEA Review (the article starts on p. 13), something listed "enemy" Rick Hess properly ridiculed, and then ridiculed again with a longer explanation of why enemies lists are fundamentally foolish. It's been a busy 10 days or I'd have gotten around to this earlier, because this […]
Power and choices: LGBTQ youth
Via Cath Lugg, a more realistic video about bullying of gay and lesbian youth: The young woman in the video talks about the reality of bullying and the problems with superficial "it gets better" videos. It gets better when you're an adult and if your choices improve so you're not surrounded by bullies and bystanders. […]
Education behind bars to remove bars
A break from election discussion: David McKay Wilson has an interesting discussion of correctional education in an article in Nov/Dec 2010 Harvard Education Letter. That means education of teenagers who are in detention facilities. Wilson points to the (non-test-oriented) provisions of NCLB that apply to education behind bars: certification requirements for teachers, tracking of students […]