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  • Schoolhouse economy

    The situation in California is particularly bad because desperate California economy. Caused in large part to real estate failures. Like it or not community colleges and special ed programs are being squeezed. The best and the brightest are being turned away.
    Posted to Schoolhouse Rock by david wayne osedach on September 18, 2008

  • School Choice

    Having kids who recently finished up elementary school, it seems incredibly obvious to me that the biggest problem with schools is not the schools, but parents. When we were kids, there was the same variety of ability and intellect in the classrooms. The difference was that a far greater proportion of us were from families that not only valued ...
    Posted to Schoolhouse Rock by Whomever on September 18, 2008

  • Re: A worthy goal, BUT.

    At my daughter's school, students take an assessment test at the beginning of the school year - this establishes a baseline and also serves to indicate areas that need extra teaching. Goals are then set based on the combined results of the assessments. Mid-year, a new assessment is given to measure progress and to determine any new areas for ...
    Posted to Schoolhouse Rock by kkammerer on September 11, 2008

  • Camp Concentration

    I teach college math. I often give talks to high school and grade school teachers. They tend to fall into two camps. In line with the Schoolhouse Rock blog, lets call them the reds and the greens. The reds go into teaching because they think it will be easy. They don't think it is necessary to know anything to be a teacher. They don't ...
    Posted to Schoolhouse Rock by Rick Norwood on September 3, 2008