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Is it the Bad Teachers?
The discussion about what is wrong with our schools usually center around one of the following bad guys: Bad Teachers Un-Uninvolved Parents Unions Funding Too much administration Bad Kids I think all of these factions influence the quality of education in this country to varying degrees, but I think we forget about one of the bad ...
Posted to XX Factor by cataliciouslasvegas on November 13, 2008
Teachers
I suggest someone should run a similar study of first year teachers. I predict similar results.
Posted to What's Up, Doc by laikalives on October 6, 2008
Thanks for Researching This, Rather Than Healthy Family Life
The complete and inane turpitude of every aspect of American life and attitudes and values continues to astonish me, over time. I would guess that no American living today under the age of 20 or 30 knows or can conceive of the Great American Family as I experienced it, along with so many other Americans, in the 1950s and 1960s here in America. I ...
Posted to The Dismal Science by MichaelBernard2 on September 29, 2008
Re: Bridging the gap
It's true that there are certain differences between the public and private sectors. But in a charter as in many other non-profits there is a zealotry that thinks that anything done for the cause is justifiable. Firing teachers on a whim is one of them. I spent a year teaching due process to sophomores and didn’t receive it myself. Instead ...
Posted to Schoolhouse Rock by phltr1 on September 15, 2008
Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..
... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008
Hello Goodbye, Melvyl and Bob Brass
You two really ''went to town'' or ''to the mat'' here in this string, didn't you? I came across Bob Brass posting much later, and trailed him back here. Bob is of high intelligence, got a good education, his Mom taught kids in New York City most if not all of her career, and Bob worked as an analyst of sorts for Uncle Sam. Melvyl is also an ...
Posted to The Dismal Science by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008
Great Idea!!! Very Boy Friendly!!!
I think these books are a great idea and will make boys enjoy reading. Being a 1st grade teacher at a all boys school books with adventures and superheroes are very attrative to boys and the great thing is that they are having fun while they are learning. I can't wait to purchase a few of these.
Posted to Family by Che11 on July 24, 2008
good teacher, bad teacher
This article tackles an issue which I wish I heard talked about more often in schools across the country. Even thinking back to the truly ''bad'' teachers I had here and there, I can think of a few subjects in which having a great teacher would have helped me in many ways. We all remember bad teachers we had, but the good ones stand out even more. ...
Posted to The Dismal Science by sgatzke on July 15, 2008
Re: Don't Blame the Teacher. Blame the Principal
I think every good principal would agree that it only takes a few teacher--perhaps no more than a half dozen--to completely change around a school. Providing those teachers with all they need to be effective can be contagious; other teachers will want to be around them, learning from then, enjoying the atmosphere their presence fosters. Losing ...
Posted to The Dismal Science by donjohn5 on July 15, 2008
Why are public schools so bad at hiring good teachers?
I am a retired teacher with over 33 years of both classroom and educational leadership experience. While I have had the unfortunate experience of having to work with bad teachers but I have also had equally unfortunate experiences working with bad parents, bad administrators, and some good but very messed up kids. This article seems to focus ...
Posted to The Dismal Science by zachary1 on July 14, 2008

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