I just uploaded my K12 Online presentation, just in under the wire. I’d read the guidelines a while back, and remembered the limit being 40 minutes. So my presentation video was 38 minutes long. Then, re-reading the guidelines this morning, I discovered yet more evidence of my faulty recollection [...]
Ask anyone who has ever worked in schools and they'll tell you that middle schoolers are an interesting breed. Trapped in developmental limbo and stumbling through three years of near misery, they drive everyone that they know crazy along the way.
I love 'em to death, though! [...]
While at the ULearn08 dinner I thought of organising a flash mob doing the Dancing Man before the Friday morning keynote and had it pretty much sorted before realising that there wasn’t a keynote on Friday morning. Doh!
This from WHAS:
WHAS11 has learned that the Robert Felner investigation has expanded into even more parts of the country....During WHAS11’s own investigation, it was discovered that federal agents have been in contact with the New York State Middle School Association and the Atlanta Public School System, in connection with [...]
A federal appeals court [Friday] upheld immunity for administrators at a Kentucky middle school over their role in turning in a student to law enforcement officials for giving a prescription pill to another student.
The student and her parents sued the Grant [...]
ADJUNCTS NEED TO FIGHT BACK: Part-time profs at colleges and universities increasingly are being fired over things they say in the classroom, and that must not be tolerated, columnist Bill Maxwell writes.
OVERCOMING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER: Lee schools adopt a new ESOL program that makes it harder to get in [...]
I’m home safely after another brilliant ULearn08 conference. The whole thing is really such a whirl and I think you do need some time to internalise things but here are my thoughts as they come
to me [...]
When it comes to low achievement in mathematics, one group of researchers believes we’re doing it to ourselves.
Or rather their new study indicates that our culture’s attitude towards “nerd” subjects could be a primary cause.
I haven’t read the full study but I’m sure it contains a whole lot of [...]
In the past couple of weeks, the politicians have talked a lot about government regulation (and the lack thereof).
Not so much has been said about the deteriorating condition of our national infrastructure, and how we don’t invest nearly enough in it.
In traveling cross country by air this past week I [...]
Thanks for everything that you have already done to support education reform within the Obama campaign. I wanted to alert you to three upcoming events and a web site, where Obama supporters who are interested in education can help propel Obama (and the issue) into the White House.
1. Silver Spring, [...]
