These are the kind of stories that warm your heart at this time of year: Howard announced Thursday that his Ryan Howard Family Foundation would be donating athletic sportswear valued at $1.15 million to the school district of Philadelphia. Fifty-seven high schools will benefit from the donation by receiving athletic footwear and uniforms that match …
“The challenge we face is nothing less than transforming our schools from assembly-line factories into centres of innovation,” said the city’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who warns that the US school system is falling behind international rivals. Education is a mirror into where our society is going. As of now, our public schools are saying that …
Math teachers might argue that they don’t teach reading, but it would be hard for them to argue that their students don’t need to know how to read in their class. Language teachers might argue that they don’t teach English grammar, but it would be hard for them to argue that their students don’t need …
I do realize that what I am talking about is scary. I know that most teachers believe that they will be in the same classroom that they have been in for the past 10 years for the rest of their teaching careers. I know that teaching has always been considered a safe place and secure …
In the corporate world, it is not uncommon when offered a new position to be offered a signing bonus (around $10,000), full paid moving expenses and even a place to live. Are there any teachers who have been offered any of these “perks?” I think that teachers will soon become teacher contractors. Schools, especially independent …
[Q]uestions about how we should reform our nation’s schools have now entered the public consciousness in a very real way. The global financial crisis and our economic woes have collided with increased mainstream coverage of our failing educational system. Education Week gets it. They know that print resources are dead. Look at their site! They …
Yesterday at the SWP Fall Renewal Conference, Barry Lane entertained us with song parodies about the cultural climate of the public school system. He’s a good writer and he knows teachers. It was nice to be able to laugh at the ridiculous turn that public schools have taken. But as I looked at my fellow laughing colleagues, …
I attended Spartanburg Writing Project’s Fall Renewal Conference yesterday. All of the attendees had name tages with their school or district name on them. I didn’t. I didn’t have a school. I didn’t have a district. But I am a teacher. It’s seems like a contradiction. How can you be a teacher without a school? …
Arne Duncan in today’s Town Hall Twitter Meeting said: When you have a school with that big of a gain, then you either have a shining star that should be replicated or you have to deal with the tough reality that something bad is going on. He was referring to schools that have been caught cheating on …
A college education professor has to advise her teacher candidates not to connect with their students because of the “Facebook Law:” “It’s just better not to connect that way,” Talbut said. She said she thinks one thing schools could do to benefit students and teachers when it comes to communicating online would be for them …
