Friday, November 14, 2008

Dishin' on Tenure

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One of my favorite blogger/commentators, Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic , blogs here about teacher tenure. Teachers respond here . Quality...
Monday, November 3, 2008

Election Eve Ruminations

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Is it me, or does it seem that as this interminable 2008 Presidential race draws to its long-awaited and highly-anticipated conclusion, that...
Saturday, November 1, 2008

The Internet, circa 2008

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Can we please, finally, once and for all, get rid of this ridiculous notion that it is still somehow unreasonable, in the year 2008, for tea...
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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Trousers in Conflagration

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I really used to enjoy Open School. I enjoyed meeting my students' parents and talking with them, sharing my philosophy of education and...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

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Throughout my eleven years of teaching, I have been consistently astonished by students' staggering inability to follow even the simples...
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Saturday, June 7, 2008

CELL PhONES 4 JESUS, Redux

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In having my students read and study the decision in Price v. N.Y. City Bd. of Educ. , 2007 N.Y. Slip. Op. 27214, 16 Misc. 3d 543; 837 N.Y.S...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Mark the Date

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Today I finally received the first of what are sure to be many similar inquiries in the coming two-plus weeks until classes end. One of my s...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Sorry, but I can't take it anymore...

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I never wanted to inject politics into this blog; there are far too many blogs out there dedicated to that topic, and far too many nut jobs ...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Twenty Questions: The Full Quiz

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Here's a copy of the 20-question "common-sense" quiz I give students at the beginning of the school year. For entertainment pu...
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Friday, May 9, 2008

Plagiarism

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Well, this one was inevitable... A couple of weeks ago while I was checking notebooks, I discovered that a student had copied his entire not...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

From Deadline to Lifeline

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April 15 is a date of treble significance to me: The anniversary of the Titanic disaster, Jackie Robinson Day in Major League Baseball, and ...
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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Same Old Story.

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Teacher tells student to "sit down and behave herself." Student violently attacks teacher as other students cheer, record incident...
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Gee, I wonder why.

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From the April 4 New York Times: About a third of the nation’s eighth-grade students, and roughly a quarter of its high school seniors, are...
Monday, April 7, 2008

The Great Failure

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"The persistent weakness of American liberalism is its fixation with rights and procedures at any cost to efficiency and common sense....
Friday, March 28, 2008

Toxic Truths: A Closer Look

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As a follow-up to my previous post, Toxic Truths (which you might want to read first; this is a very long post), I'd like to examine ea...
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