Among the stories you won't see on Huffington Post:
And the Hits Just Keep on Coming: Another Catholic School Charged with Molestation Incidents.
Abortion in ALL Cases About to be Outlawed in Tennessee.
Arizona Judge Bans Dad from Taking Kids to Mormon Church. No, Really.
Tenneseeans Buying So Many Guns They Are Short of Ammo---No, Really.
Scientology on Trial in France for Fraud.
Las Vegas Media, Pols Blames Obama Campaign Remarks for Drop in Tourism---No, I'm Not Kidding.
The State of the So-called Educational Miracle to Shut Out Some Deserving Incoming Freshman Students From Enrollment to its Most Prominent Universities.
GM Bankruptcy Springtime for Lawyers, Winter for Workers and Pensioners.
GOP Senator Accused of Endangering GM Jobs.
Religious Right Trying to Cashier Medical Privacy for Teens.
Is China's Yuan Going to Replace the Dollar as the Chief Reserve Currency?
Heckuva Job George and Dick! China Now Has Stranglehold on U.S. Debt Markets.
Chinese Academic Fights ISP, Censorship While Spotlighting Corruption.
Roland Burris Goes Big, Totals Up $8 Billion in Earmarks.
GOP Rep Wamp and the Call of the Krank.
Does Showboating Sheriff Joe Apraio Own Arizona Republic Columnist?
India vs. the U.S. in Education.
British MP Expenses Scandal Masking More Spectacular Construction Rip Off.
Gamblers Call NFL Ingrates.
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Tales Too Ticklish to Tell
It's Fiscal Gotterdammerung in California,. the World's 8th Largest Economy, After Several Misbegotten Propositions Fail to Pass (Though State Legislators Will Have to Take an 18% Pay Cut With the Passage of One Proposal).
Liberal Shame: The L.A. City Council Raping Taxpayers, Says Liberal Weekly.
CBC News Report Doesn't Offer Much Hope for a Reduction in Mexican Drug Violence.
Obama Ends Bush Lawsuit Policy to Benefit Consumers.
L.A. Teachers: Tony Villaraigosa One Stupid Ass Mayor.
Craig's List Grandstanding by SC Pol Making Him Look Like a Jackass.
Reward Offered for Stolen Hard Drive Containing Personal Info of Former Clinton Staffers. Now THAT is Homeland Security We Can Believe in (or NOT!).
Regular Law Enforcement, Not Invasive Random Civilian Wiretapping, Shuts Down Bomb Plot.
Homophobic San Diego School Stigmatizes Student in the Name of Conservative Correctness.
With Seemingly Half of Florida in Foreclosure, Closet Case Crist to Sign Bill Easing Oversight of Developers.
Is Obama Insane? Proposes to Share Nuclear Technology With UAE.
NY Democrat Assemblyman Gets Ten Years in the Slammer for Racketeering.
I'm an Environmentalist, But You Gotta Know When to Pick Your Spots: Tree Huggers Hinder Green Development.
WashingtonState May Levey $2 Beer Tax to Fund Health Care.
How Mass Transit Becomes Inefficient: A Classic Case Study.
Stadium Huckster Trying to Bamboozle Portland (Oregon). Kansas City Template for That Project Failing.
Portland (Oregon) to Finally End Abstinence Only Sex Education.
Evangelist Buys Way into Notoriously Secular Portland.
Democrat Provided Tax Breaks Result in Debt for Oregon.
Liberal Shame: The L.A. City Council Raping Taxpayers, Says Liberal Weekly.
CBC News Report Doesn't Offer Much Hope for a Reduction in Mexican Drug Violence.
Obama Ends Bush Lawsuit Policy to Benefit Consumers.
L.A. Teachers: Tony Villaraigosa One Stupid Ass Mayor.
Craig's List Grandstanding by SC Pol Making Him Look Like a Jackass.
Reward Offered for Stolen Hard Drive Containing Personal Info of Former Clinton Staffers. Now THAT is Homeland Security We Can Believe in (or NOT!).
Regular Law Enforcement, Not Invasive Random Civilian Wiretapping, Shuts Down Bomb Plot.
Homophobic San Diego School Stigmatizes Student in the Name of Conservative Correctness.
With Seemingly Half of Florida in Foreclosure, Closet Case Crist to Sign Bill Easing Oversight of Developers.
Is Obama Insane? Proposes to Share Nuclear Technology With UAE.
NY Democrat Assemblyman Gets Ten Years in the Slammer for Racketeering.
I'm an Environmentalist, But You Gotta Know When to Pick Your Spots: Tree Huggers Hinder Green Development.
WashingtonState May Levey $2 Beer Tax to Fund Health Care.
How Mass Transit Becomes Inefficient: A Classic Case Study.
Stadium Huckster Trying to Bamboozle Portland (Oregon). Kansas City Template for That Project Failing.
Portland (Oregon) to Finally End Abstinence Only Sex Education.
Evangelist Buys Way into Notoriously Secular Portland.
Democrat Provided Tax Breaks Result in Debt for Oregon.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
NYC Schools Chancellor Joins Parade of Teacher Haters Without Addressing Widespread School Board Malfeasance
This article by Joel Klein effectively puts and end to tenure, which protects teachers from small minded religious nuts and politically motivated attacks, without saying that. He also makes an assertion about the Troops to Teachers program, which I conceptually wholeheartedly support as part of the solution for teacher recruiting, but he cites no evidence to back up his claims about the efficacy of that scheme. This is a typically intellectually dishonest politician move.
Here was the comment I left (I know I intended to stop posting on HuffPo, but I just can't seem to help myself):
Unfortunately, this article focuses, as too many do, on scrutinizing teachers without any proposals to evaluate and fix the gross incompetence and fiscal mismanagement of local school boards. Basically, by having school boards, we allow amateurs who have never taught one student or undergone one minute of pedagogical training to make the day to day decisions as to how our children are educated. In the private sphere, allowing amateur outsiders to run things just isn't done and with good reason.
So you get horrible monuments to educational malpractice like the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Mississippi and South Carolina school systems (the latter sees a 53% high school graduation rate) and yes, the New York City public schools, just to name four.
Let's abolish the antiquated and no longer useful institution of school boards, dissolve the school districts and allow children to attend any public school they want rather than making them captives of those districts and come up with a way to make both teachers and politicians to own the educational outcomes of their constituents. Without school board reform or abolition, any proposals regarding teachers are spinning your wheels.
Here was the comment I left (I know I intended to stop posting on HuffPo, but I just can't seem to help myself):
Unfortunately, this article focuses, as too many do, on scrutinizing teachers without any proposals to evaluate and fix the gross incompetence and fiscal mismanagement of local school boards. Basically, by having school boards, we allow amateurs who have never taught one student or undergone one minute of pedagogical training to make the day to day decisions as to how our children are educated. In the private sphere, allowing amateur outsiders to run things just isn't done and with good reason.
So you get horrible monuments to educational malpractice like the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Mississippi and South Carolina school systems (the latter sees a 53% high school graduation rate) and yes, the New York City public schools, just to name four.
Let's abolish the antiquated and no longer useful institution of school boards, dissolve the school districts and allow children to attend any public school they want rather than making them captives of those districts and come up with a way to make both teachers and politicians to own the educational outcomes of their constituents. Without school board reform or abolition, any proposals regarding teachers are spinning your wheels.
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