kitchen table math, the sequel: bad news

Thursday, June 19, 2008

bad news

Reading First is gone.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

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'

June 19, 2008 at 3:59 PM
Ben Calvin said...

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

June 19, 2008 at 4:43 PM
Ari-free said...

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

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

June 19, 2008 at 6:59 PM

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