Tuesday, August 18, 2009

A-B-C, Easy as...

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After suffering through 10 weeks of studying for, and then taking, the New York and New Jersey Bar exams, I spent the last two weeks of the ...
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Friday, June 19, 2009

Feigned Helplessness

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One thing I cannot and will not ever accept is when a student responds to a quotation or a reading by saying, "I don't understand t...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

15 Minutes of What?

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To follow up on "The Spanish Inquisition," it seems the Grand High Inquisitor after he left my classroom last week declared to my ...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition.

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Well, the Quality Review has come and gone. And the result, like the Monty Python sketch from which I draw the title of this post, is absolu...
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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Five Years Gone, Never Forgotten

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Five years ago tonight, 17-year-old Craig Grumet of Roslyn Heights died in a car accident on Wheatley Road. I had known Craig since he was 1...
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Monday, May 4, 2009

Where have you gone, Emily Post?

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Here's a new one. I take it almost as a given now that most teenagers know nothing of good manners, let alone make any effort to learn o...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

An Assault on My Conscience

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There's something I've been needing to get off my chest. Last week, I went out to dinner after class with three of my very dearest f...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

One Step Up and Two Steps Back

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Another thing that occurred to me recently about "differentiated instruction" (which I've decided to refer to from now on as ...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Differentiation vs. Discrimination

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One thing I would like to ask the Grand High Inquisitors when they come here for the Quality Review later this term is: What is the differen...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Race to the Bottom

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Here's the official meme from the Grand High Inquisitors with respect to the tragicomedy they call "differentiated instruction....
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Saturday, March 7, 2009

It's Official: Education Is Dead

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I've been reporting here on the slow, gradual, painful death of American secondary education for almost two years now. Its demise has be...
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Regents Week Ruminations

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It's Regents week and I've got a couple of things on my mind. A couple of years ago, my school changed its policy on how to handle S...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Testing, 1 - 2 - 3 . . .

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I'm sure I've covered this ground before in one way or another, but I was thinking about something today. A lot of people, of all ag...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Antonymous

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I've been trying for years to find, or think of, an antonym for the word resourceful . Dictionaries and thesauri are not much help in th...
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Saturday, December 6, 2008

The Secret of NIMH

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I'd like to start this post with a question for the two or three people who read this blog: What percentage of the population, would you...
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...