Teachers and Administrators Need To Get Mad For The Right Reasons

The reactions and responses continue regarding the Rhode Island and Central Falls High School shake up…in another article entitled “R.I. School Shake-Up Is Embraced by the President” by Steven Greenhouse and Sam Dillion, “…two unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, were so angry in the hours after Mr.

Know Where We can Get One Million Qualified Teachers?

Last week I touched on distance learning evolving as a traditional method for high school online learning.  Inserted in my blog was this quote from the Alliance For Excellent Education touching on the role of the teacher.

Once Considered Non-Traditional Learning Is Becoming a Tradition

For over forty years, Blueprint Education has provided accredited Distance Learning courses to students worldwide.  Historically this type of learning was often referred as non-traditional or alternative learning.  So in reading a recent report put out by Alliance For Excellent Education titled The Online Learning ImperativeA Solution to Three Looming Crises in Education, I am reminded that what was once considered

If The Job Isn’t Getting Done…You Should Be Gone

An article today by the Associated Press entitled “All Teachers Fired at Underperforming RI School” probably touched off a lot of nerves from teachers unions…I think we will definitely see more comments and posts about this one.  Here goes…

Fathers…Your Children Do Need You

Julia Steiny’s article, “Let’s Talk About the Importance of Fathers in Child’s Lives” is the first article actually in several weeks that compelled me to comment.  So if you are moved by this article like I was, really from the title itself, visit the link and then read my comment at the end.  Here’s to fatherhood, motherhood, and parenthood!  Definitely not an easy task, not a short-term job, not a job that consistently gets accolades,

Unsolicited Feedback – The Honest Truth

This month, we received a letter from a group of seasoned professional working with youth in therapeutic schools and programs throughout the country.  There are a number of these “centers” serving adolescents and children identified by their affiliation with the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP).  We have been working with such centers for the past 15 years and more intensely in the past 5 due to increased demand in mental health services.

Houston Independent School District Leading The Way!

Kudos!  All it takes is just one district to break away from the business as usual and take a stand on this platform that everyone is calling “education reform”.  Well one district did!  An article by Greg Meyers entitled “Key to Student Achievement?  ASPIRE to it” is just the movement that’s needed.  It’s not education reform but education transformation as Meyers calls it.  It not only reviews statistical growth in specific metrics on how the Houston Independent S

AP Tests Are Good No Matter What!

Here’s a hot issue in education…this article was written by Jack Gillum and Greg Toppo entitled “Failure Rate for AP Tests Climbing.”  It’s interesting how the two camps perceive results in two very different ways…sometimes that leads me to believe that the answer should never be so black and white but addres

Overhauling “No Child Left Behind”

Yesterday on Talk of the Nation, NPR’s Larry Abramson and Claudio Sanchez explain Obama’s proposed education overhaul and assess his new Race to the Top initiative.  Since the Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind Act brought sweeping changes to our education system, many argue it emphasizes testing over learning.  You can listen to the Story below:

Bill Gates Talks Twitter, Education and Global Health

Earlier this week, Bill Gates (@BillGates) sat down with Jon Stewart, host of The Daily ShowThe Gates Foundation grantmaking focus is backing innovations in education, food, and health as well as some related areas like savings for the poor.  Gates describes the foundations plan for the US.

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