There’s a limit. There’s a line. There’s an end. As teachers get less and less pay and less and less benefits, then inevitably they will start to seek out different positions and opportunities that do offer health benefits and a sense of security that they thought the public school system guaranteed. When that happens, there will …
Education isn’t about students anymore, it’s about money: Relentless fund-raising, be it for the annual fund, the spring benefit or the latest capital campaign, is as much a feature of private schools as small classes and diverse offerings. But with schools hitting the upper limits of what they can charge for tuition, consultants, parents and …
I am working with a student who is trying to get his GED because he has been told that is what he needs to get a good job and to succeed. What do I say? I am working with a student who is in the middle of standardized tests and has extreme test anxiety because …
When you buy into a system that you think is going to guarantee a new chance and a new opportunity and it doesn’t deliver, what happens next? This week, a judge dismissed a lawsuit against New York Law School filed by some of its own recent graduates. They claimed the school’s marketing misled them about …
I know budgets are tight and budget cuts are much more normal than raises, but if you have teachers who are teaching a class and half because budget cuts have eliminated a whole teaching position, then shouldn’t teacher raises be top priority in the coming fiscal year? “Teachers do deserve a raise,” said Spartanburg District 5 Superintendent …
It’s amazing as a teacher when you encounter a community of learners without noticeable barriers and boundaries between teachers and students. That’s what I saw today at Oakbrook. I saw teachers who were reflectively considering the way that technology would be used in their classrooms and who were thinking through theses decisions as their students …
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I’ve realized that I haven’t used this space to talk much about what I am doing day to day, so here we go! Yesterday, I worked with student who finished school in a non-degree program and he is working towards a GED. So I am desperately trying to connect GED vocabulary to experiences and sports …
More and more I am wondering whether public schools are about students or money: One of the leading criticisms of voucher programs—and charter and virtual schoolsfor that matter—is that they undermine traditional public schools’ finances by sucking away their per-pupil funding and resources.
I’ve said my piece, I’ve made my plea. Now it’s time to decide who you will be. Amen. Let it be. Amen. Let it be.
I had a dream last night that I was standing on the porch and watching the ocean. Then I saw that the tide was creeping closer and closer and becoming more and more powerful. I begged and pleaded to the people around me to follow me inland. I told them what I saw, but then …
