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Thursday, June 19, 2008

bad news

Reading First is gone.

3 comments:

  1. I went to the link, actually the link in the link, sigh.

    From the "Excellence in Education Summit". There's a nifty set of bulletpoints that will be addressed in the conference...


    *Raising Standards
    *Measuring Progress
    *Demanding Accountability
    *Closing the Achievement Gap
    *Expanding School Choice

    There's also some nifty pix of notables attending the conference. I'm partial to some, impartial to others and hostile to a few. Not a teacher among them though.

    Having just gone through hell on the inappropriately named last day of school ( more aptly named, the first round of summer day care), I'm more interested in things like:

    *The best way to break up a fight between 2 psychos beating on each other for "looking at me"
    *Entering attendance on 4 different colored cards in a student's permanent record from a printout taken from a computer database.
    *Wasting the last 14 days of school post state mandated 'final exams'
    *Adequate education funding for our country's decayed 'landing zones'
    *Placements that put square pegs in round holes
    *Providing parenting, bereavement counciling, morals training, and ethics in the spaces between academics
    *Parental choice
    *Combat pay

    Just sayin'

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  2. To repeat my theme of the season: public education in the U.S. will not be changing anytime soon.

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  3. I've posted on freerepublic
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033614/posts

    Nobody seems to be mourning the loss of this program...

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