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Newspaper prays for drought in Nevada education funding
No sooner did I note the Nevada State School Board’s request for more money, mostly to increase teacher pay, than today’s editorial in the Las Vegas Review-Journal started shooting at the proposal,...
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California – new law aids low-performing schools
Maybe California will get back on track. Once California’s public schools were the envy of most of the nation. Most of them worked well, and proved very attractive to new businesses who needed...
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Funding still the key to education reform
Everyone is for it, no one wants to pay for it. Education reform still hits the wall when we ask “who pays?” The Seattle Times said funding is the key to reform, in an editorial November 19: THE...
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Memories of a one-room school
Not just one room, but one room populated mainly by one family and cousins. Dying Man’s Journal has some reflections on a Canadian one-room school. Some of my students could use such a school. It would...
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Utah’s legislature boosts education across the board
Gifted with a surplus of funds due to a good economy, the Utah legislature hiked education spending in almost every category, providing pay increases for teachers, more teachers, more schools, more...
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Notes from the Sub Terrain: Basketball class
Notes from the Sub Terrain is an occasional — okay, spasmodic — set of observations from a certified teacher working as a substitute. Basketball class The assignment said “upper level, basic biology.”...
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Send me these kids, please
Lucky will be the teacher who gets the kids from The Living Classroom. I wager they’ll be eagar to learn, and that they’ll set the pace in good behaviors and academic achievement in future classes —...
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Inherent evils of public education
Public schools have serious problems. Regular readers here should know me as a defender of public education, especially in the Thomas Jefferson/James Madison model of a foundation stone for a free...
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Looking up to Finland
Commenter Bernarda sent a link to a Washington Post story by Robert Kaiser about Finland, a nation who redesigned its education system with rather dramatic, beneficial results. Among other things, the...
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How it’s done right
If I need a lift, I go here. It’s how school should be — probably all the way through. I don’t know the details of how or why this class is set up the way it is, but day after day they do things that...
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Treat teachers like bankers?
A reader named Sam left this comment, in response to my post on teachers being overworked and underpaid, and I elevate it because it demonstrates, once again, how teachers get dumped on in ways that...
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Education spending, per pupil, apples to apples
Utah rejected education vouchers last November, so the release from the Census bureau at the first of April probably got overlooked as not exactly important — I saw no major story on it in any medium....
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Does gender-separated schooling work better?
Even public school districts toy with the idea of separating genders in the primary and secondary grades. Some people argue that there is experimental evidence to support the plan, plus there are the...
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Storefront schools
Why not? In comments to the immediately previous post, Zhoen says segregation by gender is no panacea for education. But, she wonders at OneWord: Why not storefront schools? For many years, I have...
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Class size debate heats up; does size matter?
Several states tried to reduce class size, but generally class sizes have not been reduced and are increasing again. So, does class size affect student achievement? The New York Times featured a story...
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“Dark day” in Dallas: Republican War on Education creates hundreds of casualties
Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s War on Education created hundreds of casualties today in Dallas Independent School District. Though the Texas Lege has not approved a final budget, the best case scenario at...
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If class size doesn’t matter, why do the charter schools list it as a key...
Classroom in Edgewood ISD, San Antonio, Texas, in 2010. Republican legislators want more classrooms like this one, crowded, to save money paying teachers and heating the rooms. Or maybe they have a...
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