Posts Tagged ‘K through 12’

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Nov11

The “Cash For Grades” Program

by Duane on November 11th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Posted In: Headlines, Just "Why?", Our children

Thankfully, it was shut down. But the fact that it was once an active fundraiser scares me.
(newsobserver.com) Selling candy didn’t raise much money last year, so a Goldsboro middle school tried selling grades.
However, the fundraiser came to an abrupt halt today after a story in the News & Observer raised concerns about the the [...]

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Oct19

The Writing Is On The Wall

by Duane on October 19th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Posted In: Education, Headlines, Our children

This is what I wrote back in June of this year~
“I have to admit that oftentimes I have mixed emotions anytime I hear about a school that has been doing poorly for years suddenly able to significantly able to raise test scores without making any major changes to the preexisting failing system.
Do I want to [...]

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Apr24

I remember when they tried to pull something like this on me

by Duane on April 24th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Posted In: Education, Our children, The Brothas

Many moons ago, I remember when the public school I attended wanted to put me in a class for “slow learners”. Thankfully, my parents weren’t having that and told my teacher “no”.
Mind you…
…this is the same system folks feel that we need to spend more money to “fix”. Yup. The same system that is systematically [...]

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