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
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This story continues to smolder here in Atlanta. Here is the latest:
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“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.”
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Over this weekend, I finally viewed the documentary “The Cartel” and to this day I am still shaking my head over what I both heard and saw. This was a documentary that covered the state of public education in New Jersey (a state that ranks near the top of amount spent per child). While most [...]
When the NAACP protests AGAINST Black parents, it shows that it is no longer an organization that supports Black interests. The teacher’s unions could not handle this battle alone, so they had to get their black dogs out to do the barking.
Instead of attending county colleges, Ben Jealous
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This is EXACTLY why when I hear my people complaining about how our kids are not getting a fair shake in public education due to (enter your racism-flavored conspiracy story here), I tend to question it more than actually believe it.
The city of Atlanta is practically owned and operated by Black folks. It has largely [...]
“(CNN) — As a toddler, Ian Barrier got expelled from day care.
“They just said that he was all over the place, he couldn’t handle the structure, they didn’t have the staff or the skills to deal with it,” said his mother, Amy Barr. “They said, ‘We think he has ADD or ADHD’ and I’m like, [...]
Man, the hits keep-a-coming.
“…DeLauro and many of her Democratic colleagues will have to swallow hard as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gathers her troops Tuesday for a rare mid-August session to pass a $26.1 billion state aid spending package that cuts billions of dollars from food stamps to save thousands of teachers’ jobs and [...]
“In a front page article by reporter Chris Levister, she quotes the head of the California Federation of Teachers Association Marty Hittelman as saying; “I won’t say that I’m in sorrow of California losing it. There wasn’t a great deal of support. The teachers union had opposed for example, basing teachers evaluations on standardized test [...]
“Buckman also had harsh words for a group of teachers who are in favor of striking instead of approving a new contract that forces them to give up $500 per month or $250 per paycheck as an investment. The money will be given to the district to help plug a $219 million deficit, and it [...]
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