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2/6/11
Gary Moore: R.I.P.
Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011[1]), known as simply Gary Moore, was a musician best recognized as a blues rock guitarist and singer from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2/5/11
Giants Thunder By
The Economist reconfigures an old way of picturing inequality:via Sully
Imagine people’s height being proportional to their income, so that someone with an average income is of average height. Now imagine that the entire adult population of America is walking past you in a single hour, in ascending order of income.
The first passers-by, the owners of loss-making businesses, are invisible: their heads are below ground. Then come the jobless and the working poor, who are midgets. After half an hour the strollers are still only waist-high, since America’s median income is only half the mean. It takes nearly 45 minutes before normal-sized people appear. But then, in the final minutes, giants thunder by. With six minutes to go they are 12 feet tall. When the 400 highest earners walk by, right at the end, each is more than two miles tall.
What Would You Ask A TFAer? Updated Again
I am interviewing a former TFA member tomorrow for a future post. What questions do you want answered? Let me know in comments.
Update: Some questions so far:
Update II: Frank has written his own guest post at An Urban Teacher's Education blog because I am too slow to get his interview transcribed. You need to read his take on TFA.
Update: Some questions so far:
- Was 6 weeks enough training to make you "Highly Qualified?"
- Did Whitney Tilson ever hit on you?
- What did you learn from the veteran teachers?
- What do you think the veteran teachers learned from you?
- How were students characterized?
- What was your worst fialure?
- What was your greatest success?
- Were you told that 2 years of teaching experience would prepare you for a career in education administration?
- Did you get support from TFA?
- Were you given a leadership role at your school?
- Do you believe TFA teachers can do the job of replacing teaching as a career by cycling through new teachers every 2 years?
- What is TFA's greatest strength.
- What is TFA's greatest weakness?
- What pedagogy/strategies most crucial in your content area?
- What pedagogy & dev psych did TFA give?
- What did you teach and why?
- Why did you join?
- Why not major in Ed?
Update II: Frank has written his own guest post at An Urban Teacher's Education blog because I am too slow to get his interview transcribed. You need to read his take on TFA.
2/4/11
I'll Be On Blog Talk Radio Tonight
Come listen to the Total Education Show tonight at 8pm Pacific time. Neil Hayley (The Total Tutor), Larry Sand, Darren Miller, Jason The Public School Guy and I will engage in another debate. You can call in! Check out the link.
It is a left/right type of thing with Larry and Darren fighting against unions, tenure and reasonableness. Jason and I will argue that unions do good, high-stakes tests should not be high-stakes, and charters are the first step in the privatization of public education.
Should be fun!
It is a left/right type of thing with Larry and Darren fighting against unions, tenure and reasonableness. Jason and I will argue that unions do good, high-stakes tests should not be high-stakes, and charters are the first step in the privatization of public education.
Should be fun!
Obama Sees Education As "a path out of poverty."
A White House Spokesman, @pfeiffer44, said he would answer questions about the SOTU speech Obama gave.
I aked him why poverty was left out of the speech, as poverty is the strongest correlate to academic success. After a week of waiting, I got a response. This is an official White House response, remember.
Weak sauce, IMHO.
I aked him why poverty was left out of the speech, as poverty is the strongest correlate to academic success. After a week of waiting, I got a response. This is an official White House response, remember.
Weak sauce, IMHO.
2/3/11
This Kid Does Not Suffer Generational Poverty
In this video we see quite clearly one kind of parenting that exists in this world. It's the kind of parenting many teachers hate because they cannot keep this kind of kid interested because they know everything already. Teachers have this extreme in their classroom as well as the other extreme--that of a kid who wouldn't be able to tell you that the Granny Smith apple on the table is green.
You want successful students? Figure out how to prepare them when their parents don't play Periodic Table games.
Perhaps early childhood education programs are needed? Perhaps universal health care could alleviate some stress for families not yet up to snuff on the Periodic Table?
You want successful students? Figure out how to prepare them when their parents don't play Periodic Table games.
Perhaps early childhood education programs are needed? Perhaps universal health care could alleviate some stress for families not yet up to snuff on the Periodic Table?
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