This is a good article that exposes some of the downfalls of the Chinese curriculum we are trying to copy here in our own backyard. GOOD Lite: If China’s Education Policies Create Depressed Students, Why Are We Copying Them? http://goo.gl/mag/ys7hs
So glad to see that not everyone has abandoned this city. There is still hope for these dear kids.
From the site About Kerbal Space Program Kerbal Space Program is a multi-genre game where the player can create his own space program. In KSP, you must build a space-worthy craft, capable of flying it’s crew out into space, without killing them.At your disposal is a collection of parts, which must be assembled to create […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From time to time I come across a resource on the web that I feel serves as an invaluable educational tool for our kids. As a parent myself, I am constantly on the hunt for such tools.
Will Higher Standards for the Bar Exam Mean Fewer Blacks in the Legal Field? “The American Bar Association, the accrediting agency for U.S. law schools, is considering a new proposal that will require law school graduates to score higher on the bar examination, which could in turn impact the number of minorities practicing in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Erroll Davis made a commitment to both the city and parents that he would see to it that all who were implicated in the cheating scandal would be fired. But here’s the problem, according to this latest article in the AJC, IT TAKES 4 MONTHS TO FIRE A TEACHER.
This story continues to smolder here in Atlanta. Here is the latest: ==== “One teacher told investigators the district was “run like the mob.” “Everybody was in fear,” another teacher said in the report. “It is not that the teachers are bad people and want to do it. It is that they are scared.”
I was thinking as I was coming home that any minute someone is going to recast the teachers in the Atlanta Public School cheating scandal as “victims” of NCLB (No Child Left Behind).
I read in one article today where someone suggested that only the school administrators should take the fall on this, not the teachers. Sorry, but if it is your job to care for children FIRST and you knowingly put your job security above them, you are greedy. All of these people had a choice to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m talking about the many unfortunate students of the Atlanta Public School System. According to a report just released by the governor’s office, 44 of the 56 schools in the district were involved in systematic cheating. Read the story here.
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